Cause Of Death: Car Accident
Albums:
1982 The Dark - The Living End
1983 Hanoi Rocks - Back To Mystery City
1983 Yasuaki Honda - Angel Of Glass
1984 Fallen Angels - Fallen Angels
1984 Hanoi Rocks - All Those Wasted Years
1984 Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps from The Move
Details:
Vincent Neil Wharton, 23, lead singer for the heavy-metal band, Motley Crue, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in connection with a December 8, 1984 auto accident that left one man dead and a young couple injured. Wharton's blood alcohol level was .17, well above the legal limit of .10, when his car skidded across the median strip on The Esplanade and rammed into a oncoming car, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner said, Nicholas Dingley (aka Razzle), a passenger in Wharton's car and the drummer for the rock band Hanoi Rocks, died in the crash.