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Psychic tests! Pet wolves! Chicken coops! Guns N' Roses and the wild ride towards Chinese Democracy

Ever wondered why Chinese Democracy took so long to make? This is the truly unbelievable story of a year in the life of Axl Rose

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Guns N' Roses unveil Frank Ferrer's replacement

Isaac Carpenter is the new drummer of Guns N' Roses following Frank Ferrer's shock exit.

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“There’s nights where I think, ‘If we don’t get to Paradise City soon I’m going to pass out!’”: 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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Guns N’ Roses announce ‘amicable’ exit of long-time drummer Frank Ferrer

Ferrer, 58, joined the rockers in June 2006.

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“I played in 29 punk rock bands, but I loved Prince. 1999 became the soundtrack to my life”: How the Purple One’s classic album was life-changing for a Guns N’ Roses star

“That record gave me the courage to move to LA”

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“Axl only wanted to play industrial and Pearl Jam-sounding crap”: the story of Slash’s Snakepit and how it marked the beginning of the end for Guns N’ Roses mark one

The guitarist’s solo debut It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere turns 30 this week but it could’ve been a GN’R album if he'd had his way

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“Like all young artists, sometimes you run into somebody that's one of your heroes”: Jerry Cantrell recalls the time he tried – and failed – to pass an Alice in Chains demo tape to Axl Rose

Back in 1988, Cantrell shot his shot to get his band noticed by the high-flying Guns N' Roses

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“The director came up with this idea of flying at me with a helicopter. I thought, This will be the last thing I ever do.” Guns N' Roses guitar hero Slash on the making of the epic music video US President Donald Trump considers the greatest of all time

With over 2.2 billion views on YouTube, Guns N' Roses' epic video for November Rain is one of the most-watched rock videos in history. Guitarist Slash has vivid memories of the shoot, not least because he thought that it might be his last day on earth

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‘John Belushi always used to try to get off with my ex-wife. I’d say: ‘John, I can hear you, you fat git’”: Ronnie Wood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Axl Rose

Living with Hendrix? Jamming with Dylan? Giving Axl relationship advice? Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has done it all

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“Thank God we had strippers! They make great money”: Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler on the chaos and carnage of making Appetite For Destruction

The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it

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“I'm not gonna talk too much about Guns N' Roses. And especially not about Axl. It only leads to turmoil and torment on my end”: Former GN’R guitarist Bumblefoot reveals his new album, new gear, new tricks - and his favourite track on Chinese Democracy!

He also admits: “The more shows I do, the more depressed I get!”daly

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Matt Sorum rejected guest spot with Guns N' Roses

Matt Sorum "declined" a guest spot on Guns N' Roses' reunion tour.

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"As I have from the beginning, I deny the allegations": Axl Rose settles sexual assault lawsuit, maintains innocence

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose was accused of assaulting former Penthouse model Sheila Kennedy in 1989

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“We hit the stage, and there’s Paul McCartney. He looks at me and he says, ‘Hey, Duff’. All I can think is, ‘Paul McCartney knows my name. How the hell did that happen?!’” Duff McKagan recalls his real-life Spinal Tap moment and meeting his heroes

The Guns N' Roses bassist on meeting Sir Paul McCartney, and a life-changing encounter with Prince

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Watch the visualiser for Michael Schenker and Axl Rose's epic cover of UFO's Love To Love

Axl Rose and Michael Schenker, together forever via the medium of animation

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“Axl did a great job”: But is the Guns N’ Roses singer about to rejoin AC/DC for a 2025 tour?

Axl’s buddy Sebastian Bach has hinted that it may be true!

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"Peyote didn’t make me puke, but some of the other guys puked for all of us": The Eagles on Indian tribal rituals, playing with Guns N' Roses and the lyric police

In early 2001 the Eagles were about to start work on their comeback album, Long Road Out Of Eden – so we tracked them down

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“Slash came to the studio, and told Axl that he was on his way to do this with me – Axl was keen to sing a few songs”: Michael Schenker on celebrating UFO with Axl Rose, Slash, and Dee Snider, and why he's come full circle with Gibson

My Years With UFO finds the effervescent Schenker revisiting seminal tracks in the company of rock legends, some Flying Vs, and and his trusty Marshall JCM800 2205, an amp so good everyone steals it

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“Ozzy says, ‘I’ve never thrown a TV out the window.’ So I rip one out of the wall and launch it out of the window”: Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more

Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses –Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more

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"I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart

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Duff McKagan promises new Guns N' Roses music

Duff McKagan says Guns N' Roses have a plan in place for new music.

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“You can feel embarrassed when you play a bum note, but I played bum notes on Strangers In The Night. Today those are the right notes!” Michael Schenker on rerecording UFO with Axl Rose, triangle guitars – and why there are no bad playing habits

Rock legend Michael Schenker checks in to talk My Years with UFO, the appeal of the V-shaped guitar and why he does not sweat the technique (and maybe you shouldn't either)

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"That band was dangerous. People died!”: Michael Schenker on his years with UFO, success and escape, and why he didn't join the Rolling Stones

With guests including Axl and Slash, for his new album maverick guitarist Michael Schenker went back to the songs he recorded first with UFO

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Axl Rose surprises 18,000 Billy Joel fans in Los Angeles with performance of Live And Let Die

This is becoming a habit

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“Pete was an open, innocent person. He suffered a lot in his life, but everybody loved him”: Michael Schenker’s new album features a tribute to late UFO bandmate Pete Way

Michael Schenker’s new album features a cover of UFO’s Too Hot To Handle – and it’s dedicated to late bandmates Pete Way and Paul Raymond

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