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Entertainment
George Bidmead

"You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness held at Wembley Stadium, London for an audience of 72,000.The concert was a tribute to the life of Queen lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, with proceeds going to AIDS research. Pictured performing on stage is Axl Rose, lead singer of American rock group Guns N Roses. 20th April 1992.

Axl Rose has had enough. It’s June 3, 1992 and we’re in Hannover at the Niedersachsen Stadium. He’s sitting on the drum riser, a sweaty, seething 60,000-strong stadium rock crowd swarming in front of him.

The band tore onto stage (on time, for the first time on their massive Use Your Illusion tour), ripped through three songs, but now something’s not right. The petulant singer doesn’t say one word to the assembled throng, and he’s sitting down. Not the usual behaviour for a man who ordinarily races around like a maniac.

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