axl rose

AXL ROSE

INTRODUCTIONAxl 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.

BIOGRAPHYWhen 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 Izzy Stradlin. In March 1985,

Rose and Tracii Guns formed Guns N 'Roses (merger of LA Guns and

Hollywood Rose).

By June, after several line-up changes, the band consisted of Rose, lead

guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and

drummer Steven Adler.

They released their first album (Live?! * @ Like a Suicide) in 1986.

A year later, in 1987 they released Appetite for Destruction, with the success of the single “Sweet Child

O’Mine”.

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.

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.

In November 1991, Izzy Stradlin 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.

His latest album Chinese Democracy was now, in 2008.