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The founder-members of the most controversial heavy
rock and of the late 80s included Axl Rose (an anagram of Oral
Sex) (b. William Bailey, 6 February 1962, Lafayette, I ndiana,
USA) and Izzy
Stradlin (b. Jeffrey Isbell, 8 April 1962, Lafayette,
Indiana, USA). Vocalist Rose, who had first sung at the age of
five in a church choir, met guitarist Stradlin in Los Angeles
in 1984. He changed his name to Rose at the age of 17 when he
discovered who his real father was, the Axl prefix coming from
a band with whom he had rehearsed in Indiana. With Tracii Guns
(guitar) and Rob Gardner (drums), they formed a rock band called,
in turn, Rose, Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. Soon afterwards,
Guns and Gardner left, to be replaced by two members of local
band Road Crew, drummer Steven Adler (b. 22 January 1965, Cleveland,
Ohio, USA) and guitarist Slash (b. Saul Hudson, 23 July 1965,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England), the son of a clothes
designer and an album cover artist. With bass player Duff
McKagan (b. Michael McKagan, 5 February 1964, Seattle,
Washington, USA; ex-Fartz; Fastbacks; Ten Minute Warning; and
approximately 30 other north-west bands), the band was renamed
Guns N'Roses. Following the disastrous US Hell Tour '85, Guns
N' Roses released an EP, Live?!*@ Like A Suicide, on the
independent Uzi/Suicide label. This brought intense interest from
critics and record companies and in 1986 the band signed to Geffen
Records, who reissued the EP the following year. During 1987
they toured extensively, though the band's appetite for self-destruction
became readily apparent when Fred Coury of Cinderella
was recruited to replace Adler temporarily, after the latter had
broken his hand in a brawl. February 1988 also saw the first internal
rift when Rose was kicked out, then reinstated, within three days.
Their debut, Appetite
For Destruction, produced by Mike Clink, went on to
sell 20 million copies worldwide and reached number 1 in the USA
a year after its release date. "Welcome To The Jungle" was used
on the soundtrack of the Clint Eastwood movie Dead Pool,
and reached the Top 30 in the UK. The band's regular live shows
in the USA and Europe brought frequent controversy, notably when
two fans died during crowd disturbances at the Monsters Of Rock
show at the Donington Festival in 1988. In 1989, the eight-track
album G N' R Lies was issued, becoming a big hit on both
sides of the Atlantic, as were the singles "Sweet Child O' Mine'
(written about Rose"s girlfriend and later wife Erin Everly, daughter
of Don Everly), "Paradise City" and "Patience". However, Rose's
lyrics for "One In A Million" were widely criticized for their
homophobic sentiments. Although Guns N'Roses appeared at the Farm
Aid IV charity concert, their career was littered with incidents
involving drugs, drunkenness and public disturbance offences in
1989/90. At times their excesses made the band seem like a caricature
of a 60s supergroup, with headlines screaming of Stradlin urinating
in public on an aeroplane, Slash and McKagan swearing live on
television while collecting trophies at the American Music Awards,
and Rose's on-off relationship with Everly. In September 1990
Adler was replaced by Matt Sorum (b. 19 November 1960, Mission
Viejo, California, USA) from the Cult.
Apparently more restrained in their private life, Guns N'Roses
added Dizzy Reed (b. Darren Reed; keyboards) for a 1991 world
tour, where their exciting and unpredictable performances brought
favourable comparisons with the heyday of the Rolling
Stones. In September the band released the highly publicized
pair of albums, Use
Your Illusion I and Use
Your Illusion II, preceded by a version of Bob
Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" from the soundtrack
of Days Of Thunder. Further hit singles, "You Could Be
Mine" (featured in the movie Terminator II ) and "Don't
Cry", followed. The Illusion brace immediately sat astride
the top two album positions in the Billboard chart,
the first occasion on which they had been thus dominated since
Jim
Croce in 1974. Izzy Stradlin found the pressure too much
and left late in 1991, going on to form the Ju Ju Hounds. He was
replaced by Gilby Clarke (ex- Kill
For Thrills ). Meanwhile, Slash's growing reputation brought
guest appearances on recordings by Dylan and Michael
Jackson. He also contributed to tribute albums to Muddy
Waters and Les
Paul, and subsequently established his own spin-off band,
Slash's
Snakepit. Guns N'Roses' appearance at the 1992 Freddie
Mercury AIDS Benefit concert prompted the reissue of "Knockin'
On Heaven's Door", and while Dylan fans groaned with disbelief,
the band's vast following was happy to see its heroes scale the
charts shortly after the single's release. While both of their
previous albums remained on the US chart, having sold more than
four million copies each, it was not until the end of 1993 that
any new material emerged. When it arrived, it came in the form
of The Spaghetti Incident, a much vaunted collection of
cover versions with a punk foundation. A perfunctory affair, it
was mainly notable for lining the pockets of several long-forgotten
musicians ( UK
Subs, Nazareth,
Misfits,
Fear,
etc.), and for including a song written by mass murderer Charles
Manson. The main inspiration behind the project, Duff McKagan,
had his debut solo album released at the same time. However, reports
of an unhappy camp continued to filter through in 1994, leading
to the dismissal of Gilby Clarke towards the end of the year,
following his own, highly public, outbursts about Rose. His replacement
was Paul Huge, a former flatmate of Rose from his Indiana days.
Huge's first recording with the band was a cover version of the
Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" for the soundtrack to
Interview
With The Vampire. However, Huge stayed only briefly with
the band, as did his replacement, Zakk Wylde, who failed to record
a single note with the band before falling out irreconcilably
with Rose. In May 1995, Izzy Stradlin was reinstated as second
guitarist, but by the end of the year Rose and Slash were again
at loggerheads and no new album was imminent. Sorum and McKagan,
meanwhile, teamed up with guitarist Steve
Jones for the spin-off band the Neurotic Outsiders. Slash
confirmed Rose's departure in November 1996, although this situation
was reversed in February 1997 when Rose allegedly purchased the
rights to the Guns N'Roses name. Later in the year, this was seemingly
confirmed by the recruitment of Robin Finck, formerly of Nine
Inch Nails, to replace Slash. In November 1999, Rose suprised
everyone by contributing the industrial metal track "Oh My God"
to the soundtrack of End
Of Days.
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