"Dead By X-Mas" | ||||
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Single by Hanoi Rocks |
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from the album Self Destruction Blues | ||||
B-side | "Nothing New" | |||
Released | December 1981 | |||
Format | 7" single | |||
Recorded | August 1981 | |||
Genre | Rock, hard rock, glam punk, glam rock | |||
Length | 2:58 | |||
Label | Johanna Kustannus | |||
Songwriter(s) | Andy McCoy | |||
Hanoi Rocks singles chronology |
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"Dead By X-Mas" is a single by the Finnish rock and glam punk band Hanoi Rocks. The single was released before the band's second album Oriental Beat but neither the A- or B-side were featured on album until the band's third album, Self Destruction Blues.
The songs are very liked and were the biggest hits of Hanoi Rocks' early career. The B-side, "Nothing New" is not as well known as the A-side, "Dead By X-Mas". "Dead By X-Mas" has since been thought to be as a prediction of the death of drummer Razzle, who died in a car crash on 9 December 1984. The chorus even has the lyrics "I'll be dead by X-mas now anyway". The lyrics tell a horror story, which guitarist Andy McCoy said could happen.