Axl loves Christina Aguilera, proclaiming her “one of the greatest vocalists of our time” in Blender.ģ0. In the Clint Eastwood film The Dead Pool, Axl has a small uncredited part as a musician at a funeral.Ģ9. The two also sang a duet of “Bohemian Rhapsody” at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.Ģ8. Axl is a huge Elton John fan, and made a presentation when John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. The video for “November Rain” is loosely based on the short story “Without You” by Axl’s friend Del James.Ģ7. An art broker sued Axl in 2006 after Rose backed out of a deal to buy an Andy Warhol portrait of John Lennon.Ģ6.
“There’s zero possibility of me having anything to do with Slash other than by ambush, and that wouldn’t be pretty,” Rose explained in a 2009 interview.Ģ5. Axl and Slash’s ongoing feud is so heated that, in 2010, Rose sued the makers of Guitar Hero for including songs by Slash’s band Velvet Revolver alongside GNR tracks, thus emphasizing a connection between Slash and the band. The abandoned house in the video for Guns N’ Roses’ “Estranged” is Rose’s own Malibu mansion.Ģ4. In Stockholm in 2006, Axl was arrested for biting a security guard on the leg.Ģ3. They hitchhiked the rest of the way, only to find that the show had been canceled.Ģ2. At GNR’s first gig in Seattle in 1985, the band’s bus broke down en route.
In the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Axl voices DJ Tommy “The Nightmare” Smith.Ģ1. Tommy Hilfiger and Axl Rose got into a brawl at Rosario Dawson’s 27th birthday party after Rose allegedly “wouldn’t stop smacking” Hilfiger.Ģ0. On the 2006 Guns N’ Roses tour, Axl dropped opening band the Eagles of Death Metal after the first night, calling them “The Pigeons of Shit Metal.”ġ9. At the first Guns N’ Roses show in LA, only two people showed up to hear the band.ġ8. Axl Rose when he signed to Geffen Records.ġ7. Growing up, Axl’s name was William Bailey. Rose used to bring copies of Never Mind the Bullocks and Queen II with him wherever he went.ġ6. His earliest conscious memory is of holding a toy gun in his hand.ġ5. He once joked in a Rolling Stone interview that when he died, he would put in his will that his coffin should show up half an hour after the funeral began, with “SORRY I’M LATE” written in gold on the side.ġ4. Axl is a night owl, and is habitually late for meetings. The song “Chinese Democracy” was Axl’s emotional tribute to John Lennon’s death.ġ3. Dick, The Stand by Stephen King, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Zodiac by Neal Stephenson, and James Dean: The Mutant King by David Dalton.ġ2. Axl’s five favorite books are A Scanner Darkly by Philip K.
Axl is a collector of Latin American religious artifacts, particularly crucifixes.ġ1. In a deposition, Axl’s ex-wife Erin Everly testified that Axl believed he was actually possessed by John Bonham.ġ0. At the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards, Axl got into a fight with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, fearing that Love was trying to possess him.ĩ. Axl believes that he and ex-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour were together in many of their past lives.Ĩ. His stepfather, Pentecostal preacher Stephen Bailey, was nicknamed “Beetle.”ħ. Axl often travels with his own psychic, Sharon Maynard, who is known in his entourage as “Yoda.”Ħ. Izzy Stradlin, born Jeffrey Dean Isbell, met Axl Rose in high school when they started a garage band together.ĥ. Axl has a younger sister named Amy and a stepbrother named Stephen.Ĥ. In the video for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry,” the woman who plays Axl’s psychotherapist is his actual therapist, Suzzy London, who occasionally accompanied the band on the road.ģ. Slash’s nickname for Axl used to be “the Ayatollah.”Ģ.
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