W. Axl Rose: The Unauthorized Biography | Paperback

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Author: Mick Wall | Format: Paperback

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Axl Rose is one of rock's most colourful figures and yet his story has never been properly told until now. Mick Wall knew the original line-up of Guns N' Roses before they were famous and has interviewed them many times. Drawing on exclusive unpublished material he has written a no-holds-barred study of the turbulent life and career of the group's singer and leader. Wall describes Axl's difficult childhood in Indiana and how, after escaping to LA, he and his fledgling band struggled to survive until they were signed up by Geffen in 1986.The first album, "Appetite for Destruction", turned them into stars but the band's lurid lifestyle took its toll - they embarked on a two-year tour that sounded the death knell for the original line-up. As their lives slipped out of control, the original members bar Axl all left. Axl himself turned into an increasingly reclusive figure, working on the long-awaited "Chinese Democracy" album. In 2006 he re-emerged into public view as Guns N' Roses embarked on a world tour. Scrupulously researched and vividly written, "W. Axl Rose" is an explosive biography of one of rock's biggest living legends.

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 The Unauthorized Biography - definatley Unauthorized!!

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This book starts off as a biography of Axl Rose. But from about half-way through the book onwards (after the author fell out with Axl real-time) it becomes more of a Guns 'n' Rose biography and less about Axl Rose. I feel that the authors' falling out with Rose does affect some of his writing; he is keen to put down Axl at every available opportunity, rather than tell the facts as they are. I was interested in finding out about Axl Rose, what things were like from his point of view, what his opinion were, but I didn't get answers to any of that. You can tell in the second half of the book the author has little access to interesting or new information or people willing to be interviewed. After half way it's just about the things we knew about anyway, who's in the band - who isn't etc.... If you are interested in the general Gun 'n' Roses story then this is an OK book. If you want to know about Axl Rose read Slash's autobiography which is much better and I learnt more about Axl there. Let's hope Axl puts out a real authorised biography one day - now that would be a good read!

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AuthorMick Wall
PublisherPan Macmillan (United Kingdom)
Year2008
ISBN9780330448567
FormatPaperback - 368 Pages
Illustrations27 black and white photographs