He was always very supportive and proud of me. At first I was known as the son of Pentti Fagerholm, the radio announcer, then it turned around so that he was Michael Monroe’s dad. He had an exceptionally soft-sounding voice, and for a lot of lonely old people, his voice was the only company they had at night, so he was very much loved. Radio announcers had to speak properly and have integrity, and my father was one of the last of that generation. When I was a kid there were only three radio channels, one in Swedish, two in Finnish. It didn’t affect me that much, but pretty much everybody in Finland knew who he was. How famous was your dad and what effect did his celebrity have on you when you were growing up? Suzi went nuts: ‘Let those people be, they’re just having a good time.’ She was great. At the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, people stood up to dance and the bouncers tried to make them sit down. I saw Suzi Quatro three times in Finland. I snuck in for nothing because I was so tiny, and was blown away. My second show was The Sweet, right after the Sweet Fanny Adams album. The acoustics were horrible, they played so loud I couldn’t hear for two days, but it was great. I’ve got older brothers so I went with them. The first band I saw live was Slade in 1972. I was born in sixty-two, the same year as the Rolling Stones and two months after Marilyn Monroe died. What events happened in your formative years that most influenced your career choice? McCoy and Monroe, from the shoot for Hanoi’s 1984 picture disc single Don’t You Ever Leave Me
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