Garbage Days Revisited #79: Demolition 23 - "Demolition 23" (1994)
"Well life's a drag and then you're dead/It's just me and the boys and a bottle of red/Tellin' lies about better days ahead" - Demolition 23 - Hammersmith Palais After last week's look back at Andy McCoy's various misadventures through the '80s and '90s , I thought that it would be a good opportunity to look at his Hanoi Rocks co-accused Michael Monroe's adventures during this time period. I've kind of touched on Mike's solo career in these pages already when we did a GDR on his Whatcha Want? album (his final solo effort before rejoining Hanoi in the early noughties) but following the group's messy dissolution in 1985, he would head out to the States with the aim of kickstarting a solo career. The result of this would be 1987's Nights Are So Long album featuring a good mix of originals ( Too Rich To Be Good ) and covers (takes on the Heavy Metal Kids' She's No Angel , the Flamin' Groovies' Shake Some A...