5/20/2023 0 Comments Outube hanoi rocks![]() More signs started pointing me in this direction, especially when I moved to New York. For me, it was really interesting because I had no plans and I didn’t know what I was going to do. As we were recording it, Stiv realized the song was really about him leaving The Dead Boys. That’s the magical version of that song – it was written by Jimmy Zero, the Dead Boys’ guitarist. “I was still recovering from this devastating blow, and Stiv encouraged me, we made those demos – we did a demo of “It’s a Lie,” where it’s a duet with Stiv. ![]() Then, when we went to do the video in New York, that’s when I decided to move to New York and start all over. Steven was doing the Sun City project at the time, and that’s the first thing I did solo since Hanoi had broken up, and I’m still really proud to have been a part of that with all the people that were in it – Miles Davis to Pete Townsend, to Keith Richards to Ringo Starr, to Grandmaster Flash and Run DMC – all these great people. These two people were like the coolest people in rock to me – I didn’t need anybody else. “I moved in with Stiv eventually, in ’85, and Little Steven came over to produce the Lords of the New Church, and that’s when we made some demos, which he produced. I wanted people to know Hanoi Rocks as it was. There would have been some new guys coming into the band, and it would not have been the same as Hanoi had been, and I didn’t want that. He actually encouraged me to keep going – my intention was to save the integrity of the Hanoi Rocks name. It was a very difficult time, but also with Stiv being there for me, it was such a help. Not only did Razzle die, but Sami Yaffa left the band. ![]() I was obviously still devastated from losing my best friend (Razzle) and having my band break up. Hanoi was breaking up and I was still living in London in the Spring of ’85 – Stiv was really the only friend I had back then. “It was a very significant period of time.
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