#RAZZLE OF HANOI ROCKS CRACKED#
Vince Neil miraculously escaped serious injury (suffering only cracked ribs and minor facial cuts), but Razzle was pronounced dead on arrival at Redondo’s South Bay Hospital at 7.19pm.
#RAZZLE OF HANOI ROCKS DRIVER#
The driver of the third vehicle was thankfully uninjured. Lisa Hogan’s passenger, 20-year-old Daniel Smithers, suffered a broken leg and some brain damage. Brain damage, meanwhile, left her liable to psychomotor seizures. The driver of one of them, 18-year-old Lisa Hogan, was rushed in a critical condition to the intensive care unit of the Little Company of Mary Hospital, where she remained in a coma until the end of the month with a broken arm and two broken legs. His Ford Pantera then careered into the path of oncoming traffic and was struck by two other cars. Seconds later, and with chilling realisation dawning, they returned to the scene to find Vince Neil in police custody and Razzle’s unconscious body being put into an ambulance.Īndy McCoy and Michael Monroe, circa 1983 (Image credit: Fin Costello/Redferns)Īpparently, shortly after setting off at 6.38pm, Neil lost control of his car in a wet spot while swerving around a stationary fire truck at 65mph in a 25mph zone. As they drove they passed a car wreck near Neil’s home in Redondo Beach. Vince Neil, heavily intoxicated but, inadvisably, keen to show off his orange-red 72 Ford Pantera sports car, set off for the liquor store with Razzle as his passenger.Īlmost an hour later McCoy became concerned that the pair still hadn’t returned and, along with the band’s road manager, set about retracing their steps. Sketchy memories from those in attendance suggest that three to four days into the party, on the evening of December 8, with supplies depleted, a trip to buy more booze was mooted. With Monroe laid up in his hotel room, McCoy, Razzle, bassist Sam Yaffa and guitarist Nasty Suicide embarked on a mammoth drinking binge with the Crüe that was always destined to end in total, unmitigated disaster. It came as little surprise, then, that as soon as the – temporarily derailed – Hanoi Rocks touring machine arrived in LA, Mötley Crüe held an impromptu welcome party for them. And although the two bands were never the closest of friends, they did share an unhealthy appetite for cavalier self-destruction.
Hanoi’s ebullient drummer Razzle vaguely knew Crüe vocalist Vince Neil, and while in London Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee had crash-landed at Andy McCoy’s flat to hang out and watch an AC/DC video. But thumb twiddling was something they were never particularly good at.īirds of a feather flock together, and Hanoi Rocks’ unquenchable desire for partying had previously, and almost inevitably, brought them into LA band Motley Crue’s orbit. Neil dedicated Theater of Pain, Mötley Crüe's third studio album, to Razzle.The remainder of the band, after flying down to Los Angeles, routinely ripped to the gills on a variety of intoxicants, were forced to kick back and twiddle their thumbs while Monroe recovered. He was buried at Holy Cross Church in Binstead, Isle of Wight in 1984. Razzle was taken to South Bay ER but was declared dead on arrival at 07:12 local time.
The two occupants of the other car were seriously injured. While speeding and driving drunk, Neil lost control of the car and hit an oncoming vehicle. The two decided to take a trip to a local liquor store in Neil's De Tomaso Pantera. On 8 December, Razzle visited Neil's home and spent the day in Redondo Beach. During that break, Mötley Crüe's singer Vince Neil invited the band to visit his home, in California. Frontman Michael Monroe fractured his ankle, so the band had to skip a few gigs and take a break. In late 1984, Hanoi Rocks was on their first American tour. In 1983 Sami Yaffa disclosed that he and Razzle were planning to leave the band citing Andy McCoy's insufferable behaviour as the main factor. Prior to joining Hanoi Rocks, Razzle had played in UK-based bands Thin Red Line, The Fuck Pigs, Demon Preacher (featuring Nik Fiend, later of Alien Sex Fiend) and The Dark, with whom he released one EP. Born in Royal Leamington Spa, England, he was adopted by Henry and Irene Dingley, growing up in Coventry and then in Binstead, Isle of Wight.
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