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"He was trying to get his life off the ground, and he's handed this $100,000 check." The story of the unknown musician who helped Axl Rose write a Guns N' Roses classic

Axl Rose's integrity stunned an old friend who played a part in Guns N' Roses' early days

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“It used to be, like, 25 minutes long!”: How Axl Rose took inspiration from Elton John to create a classic Guns N’ Roses ballad that was years in the making

Rose called it “a song about not wanting to be in a state of unrequited love”

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“If you lived in LA, in the trenches, you could relate to it. And knowing Axl, I could relate to exactly where it was coming from”: The electrifying early Guns N’ Roses song written in a basement that signposted how huge they would become

One of the all-time great album openers

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“It had a swing and a weird swagger to it that can’t really be duplicated. Kind of like lightning in a bottle”: Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Josh Freese says that nobody can play those classic GN’R songs like OG drummer Steven Adler did

Plus: “I don't have anything bad to say about Axl!"

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Rap superstars Public Enemy and Ice Cube to support Guns N' Roses on 2026 US tour

Hip hop legends to join hard rock giants on 2026 world tour

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"There's so much material at this point": Guns N' Roses release two new singles but there's still no news about an album

Nothin' and Atlas are both available on streaming platforms now

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Guns N’ Roses share 2 new singles ahead of 2026 world tour – could the long-awaited studio album be next?

Atlas and Nothin’ mark the band’s first new material since 2023

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“You’re hanging out with Steven Tyler; James Hetfield is there and Tom Morello and Axl Rose, but everybody was the same. No head was higher”: Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning

Pennsylvania’s hard rockers were one of the dozens of iconic heavy bands who played at Ozzy’s swansong in July

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"Was it worth it? It was and it will be until my dying day." Hotel chef fired after asking for a picture with Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose

Richard Perez Cuzcano gets picture with his hero Axl Rose – only to later be fired for breaking employer's policy

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“When I first came into the band, it was split into factions. Now everything feels solidified”: Guns N’ Roses’ longest-serving guitarist Richard Fortus on his bond with Slash and why he’s as surprised as anyone he’s still in the band

What does it take to be in Guns N’ Roses for 23 years and counting? For Richard Fortus, it requires tone mastery, the ability to mesh with his legendary gunslinger partner and a highly desirable signature Gretsch

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"I think what we have here is failure to appreciate": Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven files lawsuit against the band

Alan Niven, who managed Guns N' Roses from 1986 to 1991, says the band are blocking the publication of his memoir

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“A lot of the issues were to do with management and stuff that pitted me and Axl against each other”: Slash on his return to Guns N’ Roses, changing up the Sweet Child O’ Mine solo, and what needs to happen for a new GNR album

Slash is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting GNR in ’96 when they were on top, he returned in ’16 and hasn't looked back. Here he talks about the past, present, and what the future might hold...

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Slash wasn't a fan of Guns N' Roses classic Sweet Child O' Mine initially

Guns N' Roses rocker Slash has revealed that he wasn't struck on the group's popular anthem Sweet Child O' Mine initially.

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"It got so blown out of proportion." Slash on Axl's latest outburst and "killer" new Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter

New Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter not to blame for Axl Rose's latest onstage meltdown

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Guns N' Roses issue statement on Axl Rose's outbursts at recent gig

Guns N' Roses insist Axl Rose has no issues with new drummer Isaac Carpenter after he took his frustration out on his drum kit.

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Axl Rose kicks new drummer Isaac Carpenter's drum kit and storms off stage at Argentina gig

Axl Rose was visibly erratic during the opening number of Guns N' Roses' Argentina concert.

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Watch Axl Rose kick drumkit and fling microphone before storming offstage in Argentina

Angry Axl is back!

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"The more the value goes up, the more they're gonna hound us." An iconic 90s metal band are in talks about a possible tribute show in honour of their much missed frontman

And there are some... interesting choices on who could lead the tribute

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Slash provides update on Guns N' Roses album: 'It's coming'

Slash says Guns N' Roses have tonnes of new material ready for an album.

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Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose announces graphic novel

Axl Rose has created a new graphic novel in which he self-stars as a half-human, half-robot.

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"It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero

Join Axl Rose as he becomes entwined in a deadly conspiracy

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“C’mon bro... It could generate $2M for teen cancer”: Zak Starkey pleads with Axl Rose to give the go-ahead for charity cover of Bolan classic

Axl sang on an all-star version of Children Of The Revolution

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"I've been waiting seven years": Zak Starkey implores Axl Rose to return master tape he says could raise $2m for teenage cancer charity

"C'mon, bro"

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“We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose, but he never turned up to the session”: The crazed early 90s techno collaboration that saved a 70s rock icon’s career – and his life

It could have been Axl Rose or Roger Daltrey – but The KLF went for someone completely different

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"Sometimes you get to the double time in Paradise City and think, ‘Man, I’ve got to play this now!?’”: How drummer Frank Ferrer powered Guns N’ Roses for 19 years

And why You Could Be Mine was his favourite song to play

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