“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 posing for a photograph in 1984.

Finnish glam-punk pirates Hanoi Rocks were on the verge of a major breakthrough when they released their fifth album, Two Steps From The Move, in 1984. But their first American tour would end in tragedy and mark the beginning of the end of the band.