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Guns N' Roses keyboardist Melissa Reese bows out of World Tour due to "personal reasons"

Melissa Reese became the first female member of Guns N' Roses when she joined the band a decade ago

Metal Hammer

“The only way I could do it is if we had Slash. I thought I gave them an impossible task. They were like, ‘We’ll do it’”: Ryan Gosling insisted Slash was flown in from Thailand to play a guitar solo at the Oscars

The superstar actor reveals that the now-iconic performance wouldn't have happened without Slash's involvement

Guitar World

Slash and Gilby Clarke play together again as former Guns N’ Roses bandmates reunite for fundraiser show

Slash, Clarke, Duff McKagan, and Steven Adler brought the house down by taking an Appetite for Destruction classic for a spin

Guitar World

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What links Guns N’ Roses, Taylor Swift and Kate Bush? The Saturday quiz

From the Azure Window to nocturnal lights and radar-visual, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Guns N' Roses announce stadium tour in Australia and New Zealand with Airbourne

Guns N' Roses will head down under following dates in Latin America, the US and Europe

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“They already had Buckethead. I was thinking, ‘Who’s the craziest and the best?’ I knew there was only one guy”: Joe Satriani on the guitar ace he recommended for the Guns N’ Roses gig

Axl Rose was on the lookout for a player who could match Buckethead's ability and eccentricity – and Satch knew just who to call

Guitar World

"It didn’t hurt or anything. It was just ****ing scary.” We threw one of metal's most promising bands off a bridge

Endorsed by Gojira, Lamb Of God and Kerry King, Alien Weaponry are one of metal's most promising young bands

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A Bunch Of Musical Artists Said No To Appearing In The Melania Doc: 'Definitely A Disappointment'

Not every song got greenlighted.

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"The guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically." Melania Trump documentary producer names the artists who refused to give permission for their music to be used in the film

"It’s disappointing when people put politics so far ahead"

Louder

Rolling Stones dispute Melania producer’s claim Mick Jagger ‘gave blessing’ for song to be used in documentary

Producer Mark Beckman claimed star was personally involved and ‘gave us his blessing’ to use rock band’s song

The Independent UK

Melania producer shares musicians who refused to let songs be used in documentary

The producer insisted that ‘Melania’ was ‘not a political film’

The Independent UK

Prince estate stopped song being used in Melania

Prince’s estate allegedly blocked his music from appearing in Melania because theydidn't think the late star would want his work "associated with Donald Trump'.

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Source close to Rolling Stones disputes Melania producer’s claim Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song

Spokesperson for Rolling Stones tells Guardian band did not liaise with Marc Beckman and his team on use of Gimme Shelter in first lady documentary

The Guardian - UK

“The guys from Guns N’ Roses split down the middle politically. There was a song we wanted to use, and one of the guys said, ‘You got it. Go.’ And the other one was basically like, ‘There’s just no way’”: Melania producer discusses music rights issues

Marc Beckman says that they were also denied permission to use songs by Prince and Grace Jones

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The Independent UK

Trump asks Board of Peace members about Guns n Roses during photo op

This is what Donald Trump asked world leaders whilst standing on stage for a photo opportunity at his inaugural Board of Peace meeting.

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Matt Sorum believes Velvet Revolver 'could have been as big as Guns N' Roses'

Matt Sorum is convinced his band Velvet Revolver "could have been as big" as Guns N' Roses but it "didn’t last long enough" because the " the wheels came off".

Louder

"It's not big, it's not clever, but it is a lot of twelve-bar fun with that Keith Richards' twist": Faster Pussycat's debut is a middle-finger-in-the-air collection of songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

Faster Pussycat capture all the sleaze of Sunset Strip on rowdy self-titled debut

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"It was an intense place to be for a gay man in that world." Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on hair metal

Queer icon Roddy Bottom of Faith No More recalls the "ugly" side of hair metal

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"This is far and away the best live version of Paradise City I've ever seen": Rare footage of Guns N' Roses playing live in 1987 surfaces online

The footage of Paradise City was shot on the same night Guns N' Roses filmed the Welcome To The Jungle video

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“We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”

How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’

Louder

"I preferred the Chili Peppers' cover to what Guns N' Roses did, but I was really happy about the royalty cheques": Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at the proto-punk ass-kicker David Bowie didn't understand

Stooges guitarist James Williamson looks back at this proto-punk ass kicker that opened many a show circa ’73

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"We were a gang. I'd get into fights in bars defending them. But I had my dream taken away": With Guns N' Roses, Steven Adler went close to the edge more than anyone - but then it all came crashing down

Of all those involved with Guns N' Roses, drummer Steven Adler was the one who most lived up to their Most Dangerous Band In The World reputation

The Independent UK

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 1-7 includes Harry Styles and Shakira

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Feb. 1-7 include singer-songwriter and actor Harry Stiles, singer Shakira and TV chef Ina Garten

Metal Hammer

"It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off

This band of rock icons were a big deal in the 2000s - but could they have been even bigger?

MusicRadar

“Its sound kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash’s latest Magnatone Lil’ Viper 8-watt combo can go toe-to-toe with the big boys

NAMM 2026: Slash teams up with Magnatone once more to create a tiny 8-watt amp with plenty of bite

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