“Don’t blame me for glam metal. Most of those bands played their hairspray cans better than their instruments”: The wild story of Hanoi Rocks’ Back To Mystery City, the glam-punk classic that helped invent Guns N’ Roses

Hanoi Rocks posing for a photograph in 1983.

Early 80s glam-punk peacocks Hanoi Rocks were one of Finland’s biggest musical exports. The five studio albums they released between their formation in 1979 and their split in 1985 were an influence on Guns N’ Roses, Poison and even Alice In Chains. But it’s their fourth album, 1983’s Back To Mystery City, that captured them at their best. In 2013, singer Mike Monroe and guitarist Andy McCoy looked back on the making of a cult classic.