Michael Monroe was born Matti "Makke" Fagerholm on 17 June 1962.
27 Facts About Michael Monroe
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Michael Monroe's father, Pentti Fagerholm, was a very well known Finnish radio personality and reporter.
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From 1976 to 1979, Michael Monroe played in a band called Madness.
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Michael Monroe then went on to play saxophone in Maukka Perusjatka's band, where he met guitarist Nasty Suicide.
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Michael Monroe auditioned as a bassist for Pelle Miljoona Oy but, even though the audition went well, they chose bassist Sami Yaffa.
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The album was produced by Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe, who were known as "The Muddy Twins".
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The album has been cited as one of the best glam rock albums, and Michael Monroe has said that he "is very proud of it".
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Some band members joined in with the members of Motley Crue to have a party at the home of Motley Crue singer Vince Neil while Michael Monroe decided to stay in his hotel room and rest.
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In December 1985, Michael Monroe announced that he would move to New York, and in 1986, Michael Monroe founded his first solo band.
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The album was a moderate hit, but it attracted big record labels: In 1988, Michael Monroe signed to Mercury Records.
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At that time, Michael Monroe hosted MTV's Headbangers Ball where he introduced the new music video to the world.
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Aerosmith's lead singer Steven Tyler had taken notice of Michael Monroe and asked him to perform with Aerosmith at Les Paul's 75th birthday at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York.
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In 1991, Michael Monroe was asked by Guns N' Roses to appear on their Use Your Illusion I album, where he plays the harmonica and saxophone on the song "Bad Obsession".
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At the time, Michael Monroe joined Guns N' Roses on stage performing Honky Tonk Women together with the band members and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.
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In 2008 Andy McCoy and Michael Monroe stated that they had taken the band as far as they could, and so they decided to end the band.
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In June 2009, Michael Monroe performed in Helsinki and in Tampere, on Sauna Open Air -festival with Duff McKagans Loaded band.
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On 3 July 2009, Michael Monroe performed in Finland, at the Ruisrock -festival with Ginger's band, The Wildhearts.
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In December 2009, Michael Monroe met Ginger again while he was playing in Alice Cooper's band.
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Michael Monroe joined Alice Cooper on stage at Cooper's concert in Espoo, Finland, to play "School's Out".
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On 25 January 2010 Michael Monroe held a press conference in Los Angeles, where he unveiled his new band featuring Sami Yaffa on bass, guitarist Ginger from The Wildhearts, Todd Youth from Danzig and Samhain on a second guitar, and Jimmy Clarke on drums.
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Michael Monroe performed on Summer Sonic festivals in Tokyo and Osaka, where Slash was performing.
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In fall 2012, Michael Monroe announced that the band would be back in the studio recording a new album to be released in 2013.
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Michael Monroe would be replaced by former Black Halos, Amen and Ginger Wildheart guitarist Rich Jones.
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Unlike other members of Hanoi Rocks in the 1980s, Michael Monroe was never a big drug user or a big drinker although in the band's book All Those Wasted Years, Michael Monroe tells about being addicted for a short while to amphetamine and heroin in the 1980s while living in London, and to amphetamine between 2000 and 2002 after his first wife died.
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Michael Monroe met his first wife Jude Wilder in 1985 while she was working at CBS for Hanoi Rocks' Two Steps From The Move project.
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Later on the couple moved to Turku, a city in Finland, where Michael Monroe relocated after many years in the United States.
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Michael Monroe married his current wife, Johanna, on 3 July 2003.