2. INTRODUCTION
Axl Rose (William Bruce Bailey) was born
in 1962 in Lafayette,Indiana. He is an
American singer, songwriter and musician.
He is the lead vocalist and only remaining
original member of the hard rock band
“Guns N' Roses” with whom he enjoyed
great success and recognition in the late
1980s and early 1990s, before
disappearing from the public eye for
several years.But in 2001 appeared again
with a new lineup of the band in Rock in
Rio, and subsequently played periodic
concert tours, before releasing the long-
delayed album Chinese Democracy in
2008.Rose has been named one of the
greatest singers of all time by various
media outlets, including Rolling Stone and
NME.
3. BIOGRAPHY
When he was 2 years his father
abandoned them, and soon after his
mother remarried to Stephen L. Bailey.
Rose did not know that Bailey was not his
real father until he was 17 years. His real
father was found assassinated in 1984.
After knowing he was a juvenile delinquent
and was arrested 22 times. After being
threatened by the authorities to be a
habitual offender moved to L.A,
California.
Shortly after his arrival he joined the
band Rapidfire.The group disbanded and
joined LA Guns, to the formation of
Hollywood Rose with his childhood friend
IzzyStradlin. In March 1985, Rose and
Tracii Guns formed Guns N 'Roses(merger
of LA Guns and Hollywood Rose).
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5. By June, after several line-up changes, the
band consisted of Rose, lead guitarist Slash,
rhythm guitarist IzzyStradlin, bassist Duff
McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.
7. A year later, in 1987 they released Appetite
for Destruction, with the success of the single
“Sweet Child O’Mine”.
8. During the band's performance at the
Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington,
England in August 1988, two fans were
crushed to death when many in the crowd of
107,000 began slam-dancing to "It's So
Easy". Soon after, in 1988 released their
third album: GN'R Lies.
9. After some personnel changes in the band, In
1991, no album to promote the band came out
for 2 ½ years on tour of Use Your Illusion.In
September of that year, they released the
album Use Your Illusion I and Use Your
Illusion II.
10. In November 1991, IzzyStradlin left the
band due to internal complications.Guns N'
Roses played its final show of the Use Your
Illusion Tour on July 17, 1993 at River Plate
Stadium in Buenos Aires.In November of that
year, Guns N' Roses released "The Spaghetti
Incident?", a cover album of mostly punk
songs, which proved less successful than its
predecessors.Slash finally left Guns N' Roses
in October 1996, followed by Matt Sorum's
firing in June 1997. Duff McKagan departed
the band in August of that year, leaving Rose
and Dizzy Reed as the only remaining band
members of the Use Your Illusion era.
In January 2001, Rose resurfaced at Rock in
Rio 3 with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses,
featuring lead guitarists Buckethead and Robin
Finck, rhythm guitarist Paul Tobias, bassist
Tommy Stinson, drummer Bryan "Brain"
Mantia, and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and
Chris Pitman.
