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W. Axl Rose
Rose performing with Guns N' Roses in 2010
Rose performing with Guns N' Roses in 2010
Background information
Birth nameWilliam Bruce Rose[1]
Born (1962-02-06) February 6, 1962 (age 62)
Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
GenresHard rock, heavy metal
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
Instrument(s)Vocals, piano, guitar, percussion
Years active1983–present
LabelsGeffen, Interscope, UZI Suicide

W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose; February 6, 1962) 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. In 2001, he resurfaced with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses at Rock in Rio III, and subsequently played periodic concert tours, before releasing the long-delayed album Chinese Democracy in 2008.

Rose has received critical acclaim for his vocal abilities and showmanship. He was ranked No. 11 on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time in 2006,[2] No. 64 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008,[3] No. 4 on Roadrunner Records' 50 Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time in 2009,[4] and No. 1 on MusicRadar's 30 Greatest Lead Singers of All Time in 2010.[5]

Early life

Rose was born William Bruce Rose, Jr. in Lafayette, Indiana, the eldest child of Sharon E. (née Lintner), then 16 years old, and William Bruce Rose, then 20 years old.[6][7] When Rose was two years old, his father abandoned the family,[1] following which his mother remarried to Stephen L. Bailey, and his name was changed to William Bruce Bailey.[7][8] He has two younger siblings—a sister, Amy, and a half-brother, Stuart.[9][10] Until the age of 17, Rose believed that Bailey was his real father.[1] He never met his biological father as an adult; William Rose was found murdered in Illinois in 1984.[11]

The Bailey household was deeply religious; Rose and his family attended a Pentecostal church, where he was required to attend services three to eight times per week and even taught Sunday school.[12] Rose later described his upbringing as oppressive, stating, "We'd have televisions one week, then my stepdad would throw them out because they were satanic. I wasn't allowed to listen to music. Women were evil. Everything was evil."[12] In 1992, after undergoing regression therapy, Rose claimed he had uncovered memories of being sexually abused by his biological father at the age of two;[1][7][13] he also accused his stepfather of physically abusing him and his siblings, as well as sexually abusing his sister.[1][7] Rose found solace in music from an early age. He sang in the church choir from the age of five, and performed at services with his brother and sister under the name the Bailey Trio.[14] At Jefferson High School, he participated in the school chorus and studied piano.[15] Although naturally a second baritone,[16] Rose began developing his vocal range during chorus practice to confuse his teacher.[16][14][17] He eventually formed a band with his friends, one of whom was Jeff Isbell, later known as Izzy Stradlin.[18]

At the age of 17, while going through papers in his parents' home, Rose learned of his biological father's existence, and he unofficially readopted his birth name.[1][8] However, he referred to himself only as W. Rose, because he did not want to share a name with his biological father.[1][8] He became so engrossed in one of his bands, Axl, that his friends suggested he call himself Axl Rose.[8] (Several years later, just before he signed his contract with Geffen Records in 1986, he legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose.[16][19][20]) Following the discovery of his true family origins, Rose became the local juvenile delinquent in Lafayette; he was arrested over twenty times on charges such as public intoxication and battery, and served as long as three months in jail.[8][20] A psychiatrist, who noted his high IQ, concluded that his behavior was evidence of psychosis.[8] After Lafayette authorities threatened to charge him as a habitual criminal,[15] Rose moved to Los Angeles, California in December 1982.[20]

Career

1983–1986: Early years

Shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, Rose joined the band Rapidfire, with whom he recorded a four-song demo in May 1983.[21] After the group's disbandment, he joined the first line-up of L.A. Guns,[22] before forming the band Hollywood Rose with his childhood friend Izzy Stradlin,[23] who had moved to Los Angeles in 1980.[18] In January 1984, the band recorded a five-song demo featuring the tracks "Anything Goes", "Rocker", "Shadow of Your Love", and "Reckless Life", which were released in 2004 as The Roots of Guns N' Roses.[24] While struggling to make an impact on the Hollywood music scene, Rose held down a variety of jobs, including the position of night manager at the Tower Records location on Sunset Boulevard. Rose and Stradlin even smoked cigarettes for a scientific study at UCLA for the reported wages of $8 per hour.[19]

In March 1985, Rose and his former band mate Tracii Guns formed Guns N' Roses by merging their respective bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns.[25] By June, after several line-up changes, the band consisted of Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The line-up debuted at The Troubadour in Hollywood and proceeded to play the L.A. club circuit, eventually building a devoted fan following.[25] The band attracted the attention of several major record labels,[25] before signing with Geffen Records in March 1986.[15] The following December, they released the four-song EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide on the Geffen imprint UZI Suicide.[7]

1987–1993: International success

In July 1987, Guns N' Roses released its debut album Appetite for Destruction. Although the record received critical acclaim, it experienced a slow commercial start, selling only 500,000 copies in its first year of release.[26] However, fueled by the band's relentless touring and the mainstream success of the single "Sweet Child o' Mine"—Rose's tribute to his then-girlfriend Erin Everly—the album rose to the No. 1 position on the US chart in August 1988, and again in February 1989. To date, Appetite for Destruction has sold over 28 million copies worldwide,[27] 18 million of which in the United States, making it the best-selling debut album of all time in the US.[28]

During the band's performance at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England in August 1989, many in the crowd of 107,000 began slam-dancing to "It's So Easy", which resulted in the crushing deaths of two fans. Rose had halted the show several times to calm the audience.[8] From then on, he became noted for personally addressing disruptive fans and giving instructions to security personnel from the stage, at times stopping concerts to deal with issues in the crowd. In 1992, Rose stated, "Most performers would go to a security person in their organization, and it would just be done very quietly. I'll confront the person, stop the song: 'Guess what: You wasted your money, you get to leave.'"[1] As a result of the deaths at Monsters of Rock, the festival was canceled the following year.[29]

In November 1988, Guns N' Roses released the stopgap album G N' R Lies, which sold over five million copies in the US alone.[28] The band—and Rose in particular—were accused of promoting racist and homophobic attitudes with the song "One in a Million",[30] in which Rose warns "niggers" to "get out of my way" and complains about "faggots" who "spread some fucking disease." During the controversy, Rose defended his use of the racial slur by claiming that "it's a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem. The word nigger doesn't necessarily mean black."[15] In 1992, however, he conceded that he had used the word as an insult towards black people, stating, "I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people. I didn't want to support racism."[1] In response to the allegations of homophobia, Rose stated that he considered himself "pro-heterosexual" and blamed this attitude on "bad experiences" with gay men, citing an attempted rape in his late teens and the alleged molestation by his biological father.[1][13][15] The controversy led to Guns N' Roses being dropped from the roster of an AIDS benefit show in New York organized by the Gay Men's Health Crisis.[15][19]

With the success of Appetite for Destruction and G N' R Lies, Rose found himself lauded as one of rock's most prominent frontmen. By the time he appeared solo on the cover of Rolling Stone in August 1989, his celebrity was such that the influential music magazine agreed to his absolute requirement that the interview and accompanying photographs would be provided by two of his friends, writer Del James and photographer Robert John.[31] The following year, MTV anchorman Kurt Loder described Rose as "maybe the finest hard rock singer currently on the scene, and certainly the most charismatic."[32]

In early 1990, Guns N' Roses returned to the studio to begin recording the full-length follow-up to Appetite for Destruction. Recording sessions initially proved unproductive due to Steven Adler's struggle with drug addiction, which made him unable to perform and caused sessions to abort for several days at a time.[25] Adler was fired the following July and replaced by Matt Sorum of The Cult.[25] Keyboardist Dizzy Reed also joined the band that year at Rose's insistence.[25] The group fired its long-time manager, Alan Niven, in May 1991; Rose reportedly forced the dismissal of Niven—against the wishes of his band mates—by refusing to complete the new album until Niven was gone.[33] He was replaced by roadie Doug Goldstein, whom Izzy Stradlin described as "the guy who gets to go over to Axl's at six in the morning after he's smashed his $60,000 grand piano out of the picture window."[34]

In May 1991, still without an album to promote, the band embarked on the two-and-a-half-year Use Your Illusion Tour, which became known for both its financial success and the many controversial incidents that occurred during shows, including late starts, on-stage rantings, and even riots. Rose received much criticism for his late appearances at concerts, sometimes taking the stage hours after the band was scheduled to go on.[1] In July 1991, ninety minutes into a concert at the Riverport Amphitheater near St. Louis, Rose dove into the crowd to confiscate a banned video camera. After being pulled back on stage, he announced "Thanks to the lame-ass security, I'm going home!", and left, following which some 2500 fans staged a riot, resulting in an estimated $200,000 in damages.[35]

In September 1991, with enough material completed for two albums, Guns N' Roses released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, which debuted at No. 2 and No. 1 respectively on the US chart, a feat unachieved by any other group.[19] By the albums' release, however, Rose's relationships with his band mates had become increasingly strained. His childhood friend Izzy Stradlin abruptly left the group in November 1991; he was replaced by Gilby Clarke of Kill For Thrills.[13][25] Of his reasons for leaving, Stradlin said, "I didn't like the complications that became such a part of daily life in Guns N' Roses,"[36] citing the riot and Rose's chronic lateness as examples.[36][37] At some point during the remainder of the tour, Rose demanded and received sole ownership of the Guns N' Roses name from Slash and Duff McKagan; Rose reportedly issued an ultimatum—they had to sign the name over to him or he wouldn't perform.[9]

Rose during the Use Your Illusion Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1993

Another riot occurred in August 1992 at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, during a co-headlining tour with Metallica. Metallica's set was cut short after singer-guitarist James Hetfield suffered second-degree burns in a pyrotechnics accident. However, Guns N' Roses was unable to take the stage early, because Rose was once again late in arriving at the venue. Fifty-five minutes into their show, Rose complained of voice problems; he then told the audience "Thank you, your money will be refunded" and walked off stage, following which a riot erupted.[25][38] Later that year, Rose was convicted of "incitement to riot" in relation to the Riverport riot; he was fined $50,000 and received two years' probation.[34]

Guns N' Roses played its final show of the Use Your Illusion Tour on July 17, 1993 in Buenos Aires, Argentina;[39] it proved to be Rose's last live performance with the band for seven years.[40] The following August, Rose testified in court against Steven Adler, who had filed a lawsuit contending that he had been illegitimately fired. When the judge ruled against Rose, he agreed to an out-of-court settlement of $2,500,000 and 15% of the royalties for everything Adler recorded prior to his departure.[10][34] 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. Unbeknownst to his band mates, Rose had included the hidden track "Look at Your Game, Girl", a song written by criminal mastermind Charles Manson, which he intended as a personal message to his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour.[10][34] Controversy ensued, and the band subsequently pledged to donate any royalties to the son of one of Manson's victims.[10]

1994–present: Hiatus, touring, and Chinese Democracy

Without explanation or consultation from his band mates, Rose fired Gilby Clarke in March 1994.[10] Tension between Rose and Slash reached a breaking point after the latter discovered that Rose had single-handedly hired his childhood friend Paul "Huge" Tobias as Clarke's replacement.[10] 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 keyboardist Dizzy Reed as the only remaining band members of the Use Your Illusion era.[9]

As the stability of Guns N' Roses collapsed, Rose withdrew from public view. The band never officially broke up, although it did not tour or perform for several years and no new material was released. Rose continued to recruit new musicians to replace band members who either left or were fired. By the late 1990s, he was considered to be a recluse, rarely making public appearances and spending most of his time holed up in his mansion in Malibu. In various media reports, he was referred to as the "Howard Hughes of rock" and "rock's greatest recluse".[25][41] Rose was said to spend his nights rehearsing and writing with the various new lineups of Guns N' Roses, working on the band's next album, Chinese Democracy.[9]

In January 2001, Rose resurfaced at Rock in Rio III with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses, featuring guitarists Buckethead, Robin Finck, and Paul Tobias, bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia, and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman. The following year, the band—with Tobias replaced by Richard Fortus—embarked on a tour of Europe, Asia, and North America, and made a critically panned surprise appearance at the MTV Awards.[40] In November, a riot erupted at Vancouver's General Motors Place after Rose failed to show up for a scheduled concert. When venue staff announced the cancellation, a riot broke out, resulting in an estimated $100,000 in damages.[42]

Rose then withdrew from the public view for a second time. In 2004, he joined his former band mates Slash and Duff McKagan in a lawsuit against Geffen Records in an unsuccessful attempt to block the release of the Greatest Hits compilation album.[43] That same year, Rose lent his voice to the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in which he adopted the persona of Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith, the radio DJ of classic rock station K-DST The Dust.[44]

Rose (center) during the Chinese Democracy Tour in 2006

In a rare interview in January 2006, Rose stated that "people will hear music this year."[45] With Buckethead and Bryan Mantia replaced by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and Frank Ferrer, Guns N' Roses toured Europe and North America throughout 2006. Former band member Izzy Stradlin made several guest appearances during the tour. In December of that year, Rose issued an open letter to his fans, in which he discussed, among other things, the reasons why Chinese Democracy had still not been released, and named March 6, 2007 as a tentative release date.[46] However, the album again failed to materialize. In 2007, Guns N' Roses played a summer tour of Mexico, Australia, and Japan. Rose collaborated with his longtime friend Sebastian Bach on his album Angel Down; he duetted with Bach on a cover of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle" and performed backing vocals on "(Love is) a Bitchslap" and "Stuck Inside", for which he was credited as a co-writer.[47]

On November 23, 2008, 15 years after its last album, Guns N' Roses released Chinese Democracy exclusively via the electronics retailer Best Buy.[48] Rose did not contribute to the album's promotion; by December, he had reportedly been missing for at least two months and had not returned phone calls or other requests from his record label.[49] On December 11, Rose finally broke his silence by answering questions on two online Guns N' Roses discussion boards.[50] In a subsequent interview, Rose stated that he did not receive the necessary support from Interscope Records with regards to the album's release.[51] In support of the album, Guns N' Roses—with Robin Finck replaced by DJ Ashba—embarked on an extensive world tour in December 2009.

Personal life

See also: Axl Rose feuds and rivalries

Relationships

In mid 1982, Rose began dating fellow Lafayette, Indiana native Gina Siler, with whom he moved to Los Angeles, California in December of that year. According to Siler, the couple was engaged to be married "about nine times", before separating in late 1985. In 1991, Siler described their relationship as volatile, comparing the years they lived together to "putting a nuclear warhead in your living room and hitting it with a hammer and just waiting."[20]

In early 1986, Rose began a relationship with model Erin Everly, the daughter of singer Don Everly of the Everly Brothers. He wrote the song "Sweet Child o' Mine" for her, and Everly appeared in the accompanying music video. Rose and Everly were married on April 28, 1990 in Las Vegas. According to Everly, Rose had shown up at her home the previous day with a gun in his car and told her that he would kill himself if she did not marry him.[52] Less than a month later, Rose first filed for divorce.[25] The couple later reconciled, during which Everly became pregnant. She suffered a miscarriage in October 1990, which deeply affected Rose, who had wanted to start a family.[25][52] Everly left Rose the following November; the marriage was annulled in January 1991. After the break-up, Rose allegedly tried to contact Everly for more than a year, sending her flowers, letters, and even caged birds.[52]

By mid 1991, Rose had become involved in a high-profile relationship with supermodel Stephanie Seymour. During their relationship, Seymour appeared in the music videos for "Don't Cry" and "November Rain". Rose became deeply attached to Seymour's young son, and tried to be a good father figure for the child, as there had been none in his own life.[25][34] Seymour and Rose became engaged in February 1993, but separated three weeks later.[52]

Domestic abuse cases

In August 1993, Rose filed a lawsuit against Seymour, claiming that she had "kicked and grabbed" him during a 1992 Christmas party at their Malibu home, and that she refused to return more than $100,000 worth of jewelry he'd given her as gifts.[52] Seymour counter-sued in October, contending that Rose—angry because she had held the party after he had wanted to cancel it—had slapped and punched her and kicked her down a flight of stairs. She admitted to grabbing his testicles as a defensive measure.[52]

After being subpoenaed to testify during Seymour's case, Everly filed her own lawsuit in March 1994, accusing Rose of physical and emotional assault and sexual battery.[52][10] Everly testified that throughout their four-and-half-year relationship she suffered regular beatings that at times left her hospitalized.[52] In her sworn deposition, she stated that Rose—who was an adherent of regression therapy—believed that she and Seymour had been sisters in a past life and were now "trying to kill him."[10] Rose had allegedly also told her that they had been Native Americans in another past life and that Everly had killed their children, and "that's why he was so mean to me in this life."[10]

During the case, Siler also came forward in the media with claims of abuse, describing Rose as alternately "kind and loving" and "violent and irrational."[52] Rose instructed his lawyers to settle Everly's case out of court, reportedly agreeing to a settlement of more than $1,000,000.[10] Seymour's case continued considerably longer. At one point, Rose applied for a restraining order against Seymour, after alleging that she had taken cocaine in his house in the presence of her two-year-old son.[10] Eventually the case was settled out of court, with Rose agreeing to pay Seymour a reported $400,000.[10]

Health issues

By the age of 26, Rose had been diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder, a condition that causes people to swing from impulsive, reckless, and argumentative fits to catatonic and suicidal periods.[8] Although Rose was prescribed lithium to combat the disorder, he stated it was ineffective and claimed to be in control of his moods.[8] In a subsequent interview, Rose questioned the diagnosis altogether, stating, "I went to a clinic, thinking it would help my moods. The only thing I did was take one 500-question test—ya know, filling in the little black dots. All of sudden I'm diagnosed manic-depressive. 'Let's put Axl on medication.' Well, the medication doesn't help me deal with stress. The only thing it does is help keep people off my back because they figure I'm on medication."[53]

In contrast to the debauched image that Guns N' Roses projected in its heyday, Rose had stopped using drugs of any kind after the band became successful.[34] However, he did not disavow the use of illicit substances entirely, stating, "I have a different physical constitution and different mindset about drugs than anybody I've known in Hollywood, because I don't abstain from doing drugs, but I won't allow myself to have a fuckin' habit. I won't allow it."[53] In the early 1990s, Rose became a staunch believer in homeopathic medicine.[9] He began regularly undergoing regression therapy, and in 1992 claimed that he had gone "all the way back, just about to the point of conception."[1] He shared his uncovered memories of being raped by his biological father, which he said had stopped his emotional growth at two years old: "When they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right."[1]

Discography

With Guns N' Roses

Main article: Guns N' Roses discography

With Hollywood Rose

Guest appearances

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