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"Ilike rock'n'roll to have alittle bit of dirt and some drunkenness and the element of surprise." Meet Hanoi Rocks legend Sami Yaffa's new band The Sideshows

Former Hanoi/Dolls bassist Sami Yaffa’s new trio The Sideshows look to “get the rock’n’roll spirit” into their music

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"Hanoi Rocks could've been one of the biggest bands in the world. The potential was there, but fate had other plans." Michael Monroe looks back at a career packed with thrills, spills, triumphand tragedy

You could say Michael Monroe has really lived the rock’n’roll life, but it would be an understatement

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 23, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Shinedown, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Michael Monroe and more

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"The whole thing was such a shock...everything was shaking and we were crying for two weeks." The inspiring, sad and triumphant story of the 'girl next door' opera singer who'd become a heavy metal icon

Tarja Turunen didn't just kick the door down for women in metal in the 90s: she made opera cool as hell

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No rules. No limits. No quarter. Led Zeppelin: 18 months on the road with the biggest band in the world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in Classic Rock 350: Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Monroe, Jay Buchanan, Joan Armatrading, BB King, Ten Years After, The Mission, The Boomtown Rats, Tyketto, Danny Francis, Peter Capaldi and more

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 1, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Lemon Twigs, Elles Bailey, Black Eyed Sons and more

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Michael Monroe, Mammoth, ZZ Ward and more

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"It's the first time ever you can see me without make up!": See Michael Monroe as you've never seen him before in new Rockin' Horse video

Rockin' Horse is the first track from the Hanoi Rocks frontman's new album Outerstellar

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“Interviewers were telling me that I started the whole glam rock, hair metal scene. I said, ‘What? Don’t blame me for that!’” Drugs, guitars, triumph and tragedy – the inside story of Hanoi Rocks

40 years ago – after moving to London to invent the movement that would inspire a million L.A. bands – Finnish upstarts Hanoi Rocks self-destructed. This is their story

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“I said: ‘Are you sure there’s nothing can be done?’ And he’s like: ‘No. He’s gone, he’s dead’. I just hung up the phone”: The chaos and tragedy of Hanoi Rocks’ first US tour

Hanoi Rocks were heading for stardom – until drummer Razzle was killed in car crash involving Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil

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“Last time we were here, in ’89, we played with Slash on this stage. I don't remember what we did...” Slash makes surprise appearance at former Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe's show at the Whisky a Go Go

Just a few years ago, the Guns N' Roses guitarist lent his soloing chops to one of Monroe's tracks

Guitar World

"I listened to classical music right up until I saw Black Sabbath on TV when I was eight": Michael Monroe picks the records, artists and gigs that mean the most

Hanoi Rocks frontman turned solo star Michael Monroe on living with Stiv Bators and Johnny Thunders, and the possibility that he might never die

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At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Alex Van Halen, the Rolling Stones, Opetrh, George Murray, Queen, Vion Hdertzen Brothers, Meat Loaf, Joan Armatrading, Michael Monroe, Rosalie Cunningham, The Sheepdogs, Koyo, The Darkness, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Starbenders and more

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"We're taking a step back from the soap opera": The ongoing saga with The Quireboys ends as the Black Eyed Sons emerge from the wreckage

Members of The Quireboys and Down n' Outz combine for an all-star album featuring Joe Elliott, Ryan Roxie, Charlie Starr and more

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Hanoi Rocks' final album set them up for stardom, but fate had other ideas: Instead, it fuelled Axl Rose and inspired Appetite For Destruction

The story of Hanoi Rocks' Two Step From The Move

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“We made a protective circle of candles around us”: how Michael Monroe ended up duetting with Axl Rose on a Guns N’ Roses cover of punk rock classic

Ex-Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe is the only guest to have appeared on two Guns N’ Roses songs

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Michael Monroe and Vince Neil finally come face-to-face, decades after fatal car crash

39 years after the crash that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle, Michael Monroe and Vince Neil exchanged pleasantries backstage in Finland

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Inquest date set for US honeymooner killed near popular Irish tourist destination

Michael Monroe suffered fatal injuries in a September 2018 collision close to the Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland

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The Independent UK

Inquest date set for US honeymooner killed in crash near Dark Hedges

Connecticut teacher Michael Monroe died in the collision in north Antrim in September 2018, and his wife Caroline was injured.

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