

We’d have got our asses kicked!” 2: Which rock frontman once claimed you were the only man he would ever sleep with?ĬORRECT. He used to be a bounty hunter and his arm is bigger than my leg, so it’s a good thing we didn’t go down. He responded: ‘It wasn’t a joke – we were ready!’. “On that tour, I asked Twisted Sister’s bassist Mark ‘The Animal’ Mendoza if they were serious about the fight at the time, because we thought it was a PR stunt. He was sitting backstage and I rushed into the room with Dee saying: ‘There he is! He’s the one who called you a truck driver in drag! C’mon let’s beat him up!’ Andy was shitting himself for two seconds at least!” With the new reborn Hanoi in the 2000s, we opened for Twisted Sister in the UK and I played a trick on Andy. “I met Dee years later: he’s smart and cool, and we’re friends now.

There was an article in Sounds magazine, with Dee with a loud-speaker going: ‘ Alright Hanoi Rocks, where are you? Come out to play-ay!’ and looking in a trash can saying: ‘Michael Monroe, where are you?’.” We were skinny wimps living in squalor in Tooting Bec, so we’d never have gone. Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider got pissed off and they challenged us to a fistfight in Covent Garden.
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He said they looked like truck drivers in drag. “That was fantastic! Kerrang! asked Andy McCoy what he thought of Twisted Sister. This week: the Finnish glam-rockers’ former frontman takes the test 1: Which band challenged Hanoi Rocks to a street fight in 1983, with their frontman turning up brandishing a baseball bat? In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember – and find out if the booze, loud music and/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them.
