The singer's connection to Cooper goes back decades, as Hanoi Rocks covered the shock-rocker's classic "Under My Wheels" on their 1984 live album All Those Wasted Years. And he was telling me all these stories about the early days in Detroit when they were playing with the MC5 - Alice Cooper, MC5 and Iggy and the Stooges, a great lineup, and Ted Nugent and the whole Detroit scene." "Early in the day, we were in a hotel, and I filmed a clip with me and Alice in a hotel room talking about rock 'n' roll. "We got a cool with Alice Cooper when we were out touring with him in Milan," he says. He's looking for somebody to translate his eponymous 2011 autobiography into English, and he plans to release a documentary about his life and career next year. Monroe will keep his foot on the gas well into 2023. There's a bunch of stuff that I didn't even know existed. "But at the same time, we found a couple more multitrack tapes with outtakes from the first album and second one as well. "We're gonna keep the album as it was, with just a better sound," he explains. The singer says there won't be any bonus tracks on the remixed Oriental Beat, but he did find other goodies alongside the original multitrack tapes that could eventually see the light of day. Monroe says the new-and-improved Oriental Beat - "the remix, the real mix," with "no overdubs, just as it was" - will arrive this November. But fate smiled on the band when a Universal Music employee uncovered the original multitracks in a warehouse. The song was later reworked in to a hit-version titled " Don't You Ever Leave Me", which is featured on the album Two Steps from the Move.Hanoi Rocks originally wanted to remix Oriental Beat in the early '90s, when Guns N' Roses re-released their catalog on their Uzi Suicide vanity label, but the original multitrack recordings were lost and presumed gone forever. On the Japanese single, the song "Don't Never Leave Me" was used as the B-side. "Café Avenue" wasn't released on an album until 1982's Self Destruction Blues. This song was also recorded at Park Studios outside Stockholm at the Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks recordings. The story is largely inspired by Hanoi Rocks's own life on the streets of Stockholm, where people thought the band were homosexual prostitutes because of their glam rock-look. The song also features a story told from the point of view of a character who lives a rough, young and wild life, but eventually has to turn to prostitution to earn money. "Café Avenue" talks about Hanoi Rocks's individualist-attitude and how it doesn't matter how you look and who you are. "Tragedy" was recorded at Park Studios outside Stockholm at the Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks recordings. It is also melodic, even though the guitar parts are a punk style. The song is very energetic and has a fast tempo. At some point it all collapses and it feels that the world is breaking. The lyrics basically deal with a typical teen story of a first love and how one imagines it will last forever. "Tragedy" was written by the band's guitarist Andy McCoy when he was 15 or 16. "Tragedy" and its B-side, "Café Avenue", are the most well-known songs from Hanoi Rocks's early career. " Tragedy" is a single by the Finnish rock band Hanoi Rocks, from the album Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks, but "Tragedy" was released a little before the release of the album. The Muddy Twins ( Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe) Johanna Kustannus, Tandan, Nippon Phonogram
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