- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Bruce Rose
- Nickname
- Bill
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, W. Axl Rose is the pure embodiment of decadent late 1980s rockerdom. Brash, slightly misogynistic and notoriously wild, Rose grew up in a maniacally dysfunctional household - molested by his own father at age two; beaten by his abusive stepfather.
When Axl was 17 he fled Indiana on a Greyhound bus destined for Los Angeles (the haven for all that embodies sinnin' and grinnin'). After auditioning for a lion's share of punk bands (many of which he was turned down for because of his uncanny vocal resemblance to Robert Plant) he joined the seminal rock band L.A. Guns before ultimately forming Guns N' Roses. After Guns N' Roses met with the unprecedented success of their debut album "Appetite For Destruction", massive stadium tours soon became a reality, and Axl's status as a bona fide sex symbol was officially cemented. However, internal troubles with the band members and the heavy drug use among them eventually rendered Guns N' Roses obsolete until only recently. Comeback? We'll see.
- IMDb mini biography by: Brenna (wazzagurl@yahoo.com) - Born on February 6th, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He grew up with strict religious teaching, but at the age of seventeen, left his town and headed to Los Angeles. Some time after, his long time friend Izzy Stradlin' joined him in LA and they started playing in some bands like Hollywood Rose and LA Guns. Some time after Axl and his pals Izzy, Slash, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler formed Guns n' Roses. They released several albuns like "Live?! Like a Suicide" (86, EP), "Appetite for Destruction" (87), "Gn'R Lies" (88), Use Your Illusion I and II" (91), "Spaghetti Incident?!" (93- cover album) and "Live Era 87
- 93" (99-live). In 1990 Steve Adler is out and Matt Sorum is in. In
- IMDb mini biography by: Emerenciano
- SpouseErin Everly(April 28, 1990 - January 1991) (annulled)
- ParentsSharon E. Bailey
- RelativesAmy Rose(Sibling)
- Tight-fitting, leather biker shorts
- Bandanas
- High pitched singing
- His dancing onstage
- High vocal range
- Is a huge fan of Queen.
- Legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose in 1986. The 'W' is legal, not an abbreviation, and was chosen because Rose did not wish to share the name William with his biological father.
- Has served as his own lawyer and defended himself at his innumerable trials.
- Grew up in a strict Pentecostal (fundamentalist Christian) household. Was kicked out of his house at age 16 for not cutting his hair.
- Attended high school with former longtime Guns N' Roses bandmate Izzy Stradlin.
- Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
- I used to use the Internet a lot, but I got tired of reading all the garbage on there about me. The Internet is just a huge garbage can.
- We're out there to win at what we do. And if that means going on two hours late and doing a good show, I'm gonna do it. I take what I do very seriously.
- My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right.
- We want people to realize, man, just play whatever the f*ck you want to play, not what someone else thinks you should play, so that's what we've done.
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