Thursday, May 28, 2015

Strange Things You Likely Didn't Know About Axl Rose - Posted by Gabriel Lorden

"Axl Rose" is an anagram for "Oral Sex" and other things you probably didn't know about the iconic, talented and without question controversial, lead singer of Guns N' Roses.       

Posted by Gabriel Lorden



Axl Rose is one of the most polarizing characters in rock n roll. The GNR frontman, has alwaysd taken a beating in the media for everything from his bizarre statements to his appearance. 
Regardless, nobody can deny his incredible voice, charisma and these strange but true facts


  1. Slash still loves Axl and after nearly two decades of not talking to one another are now reportedly on speaking terms again.
  2. Axl has a younger sister named Amy and a stepbrother named Stuart.
  3. In the video for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry,” the woman who plays Axl’s psychotherapist is his actual therapist, Suzzy London, who occasionally accompanied the band on the road.
  4. At the 1992 MTV Music Video Awards, Axl got into a fight with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, fearing that Love was trying to possess him.
  5. Tommy Hilfiger and Axl Rose got into a brawl at Rosario Dawson’s 27th birthday party after Rose allegedly “wouldn’t stop smacking” Hilfiger. The fashion designer said: "I'm thinking, 'No teeth, no eye'. So I hit him before he hit me." 
  6. Izzy Stradlin, born Jeffrey Dean Isbell, met Axl Rose in high school when they started a garage band together.
  7. In the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Axl voices DJ Tommy “The Nightmare” Smith.
  8. Axl and Slash’s ongoing feud is so heated that, in 2010, Rose sued the makers of Guitar Hero for including songs by Slash’s band Velvet Revolver alongside GNR tracks, thus emphasizing a connection between Slash and the band. “There’s zero possibility of me having anything to do with Slash other than by ambush, and that wouldn’t be pretty,” Rose explained in a 2009 interview.
  9. When David Bowie visited the set of “It’s So Easy,” Axl found him flirting with then-girlfriend Erin Everly, punched Bowie, and threw him off the set.
  10. In the early 1990's, Gun's N' Roses were such big fans of N.W.A. that Axl wore a baseball cap of theirs while filming the video “You Could Be Mine.”
  11. After Izzy Stradlin left the band, GNR included several small tributes to him in their music videos. In the video for “Don’t Cry,” a sign that says “Where’s Izzy?” is visible for a second, and in the video for “Live and Let Die,” Izzy appears on a milk carton.
  12. Axl is a huge Elton John fan, and made a presentation when John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. The two also sang a duet of “Bohemian Rhapsody” at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.   
  13. In a 1992 Rolling Stone interview, Axl said: "I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
  14. Former Guns N’ Roses manager, Doug Goldstein, told Rolling Stone Brazil that he believes what led to the fractured relationship between Axl and Slash was the collaboration with Michael Jackson on the account that Axl was molested and he believed the charges against Jackson. 
  15. Singer Axl Rose demands 'square-shaped melons’ before he will perform on stage, claiming they are “essential to his performance.” 
  16. Axl believed that he and now ex-fiance, Stephanie Seymour, were together in many of their past lives. 
  17. In a deposition, Axl's ex-wife, Erin Everly, the daughter of singer Don Everly, stated under oath that Axl believed that he was possessed by the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.  
  18. Axl once confronted once confronted Beastie Boys" about "Ripping Off Led Zeppelin" 
  19. "Axl's a dictator" started during an interview in which Izzy jokingly referred to the lead singer as "The Ayatollah. "  It later became Slash's favorite nickname for Axl. 
  20. A coalition of Axl fans banded together to buy a full-page ad in the LA Weekly wishing him a happy 50th birthday. 
  21. In the Clint Eastwood film The Dead Pool, Axl has a small uncredited part as a musician at a funeral along with other original members of Guns N' Roses. 
  22. The album art for Appetite for Destruction was originally a painting by the same name by Robert Williams, showing a robot rapist. When stores refused to stock the album, Geffen replaced the art with the famous skull cross depicting the band members.


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