HANOI ROCKS Guitarist Andy McCoy - Official Autobiography Coming Soon
January 24, 2009, 15 years ago
Following is an excerpt from Sheriff McCoy, the official autobiography of HANOI ROCKS guitarist Andy McCoy, due later in 2009 via Bazillion Points.
“My dad beat my mom, my mom beat my big brother, my big brother beat me, I beat my sister, my sister beat the dog, the dog beat the cat, the cat beat the hamster, and the hamster beat whatever bugs he could find. That was our family’s version of the natural order.”Priced at US$21.95, this 192-page hardcover is "the last great rock ‘n’ roll memoir. This autobiography of Finnish guitarist/character Andy McCoy, founder of the hugely influential Hanoi Rocks, comes clean with a charismatic collection of thoughts on true love, heroin addiction, and the breakup of Hanoi Rocks following the death of drummer Razzle in Hollywood in December 1984. Rock authors Slash from Guns N’ Roses and Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe admit their debt to Hanoi Rocks; there would certainly be no Heroin Diaries if McCoy hadn’t showed Sixx how to use a needle. A national icon in his native Finland, McCoy has been called the Finnish Keith Richards—except Richards only fell out of a coconut tree, while Andy McCoy fell from a fourth-story balcony."
