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Axl Rose surprises 18,000 Billy Joel fans in Los Angeles with performance of Live And Let Die

This is becoming a habit

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“I went backstage and said to Rory, ‘There’s a guy out there called Slash who’s come to see you…’ Rory’s eyes lit up”: The night Rory Gallagher gave the Guns N’ Roses guitarist a taste of affordable Gibson via his 1960 Melody Maker

Modded with a Gibson humbucker, this 1969 student guitar has lived a life, and was the star of the show when Gallagher jammed with Slash in 1991

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"I went over to John's house, and he just started sobbing and said he wanted to do it": The story of the Red Hot Chili Peppers album Flea thinks is the best they ever made

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were unravelling, but they pulled together, kept it together, and recorded their masterpiece album: Californication

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At last! A rare new vocal from Axl Rose as Michael Schenker's cover of UFO's classic Love To Love finally emerges

Guns N' Roses man Axl Rose joins a stellar cast of guest musicians on Michael Schenker's new album My Years With UFO

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"Phil Mogg sings so unusually so it's difficult to copy, but Axl did a fantastic job": Michael Schenker's track-by-track guide to his new album My Years With UFO

Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO features contributions from Axl Rose, Slash, Roger Glover, Joey Tempest and many more

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"Smile at your scared opponent and help them. If he's swinging wildly, chill him out": The Gospel according to Duff McKagan

Addiction can be beaten. Understand money. Put your partner first. Don’t hold grudges. Clothes maketh the man. These are among the things that shape Duff McKagan's world view

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"All the blood rushed into my fist and I decked him. He fell to the ground like a tipped cow": What happened the night Vince Neil punched Izzy Stradlin

A feud between Motley Crue and Guns N' Roses came to a head at the MTV Awards in 1989, and it still hasn't been resolved

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"I think an official Michael Schenker Gibson model will make a lot of people happy": The Flying V-loving guitar legend looks forward and back on his classic songs

In our new interview the maverick talks cocked wahs, Axl Rose asking to appear on his new album and self-perception: "I don’t think of myself as a technical player"

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“I’m praying it’s the one I’m hoping because I lost one years ago that meant the world to me”: Woman gifted long-lost Guns N’ Roses Les Paul prototype shocked to find it’s worth $20,000

The guitar – which was sold to raise funds for the building of an LA children’s hospital – saw its value quadruple once its secret backstory came to light

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“As a player, I like to get down on my knees, turn delay knobs and make a bunch of noise. That does not work for Guns N’ Roses”: Dave Navarro on the time he turned down joining Guns N’ Roses

After Jane's Addiction split in the early 1990s, Navarro's six-string services were on the market. At the same time, GNR were also looking for a replacement for the outgoing Izzy Stradlin

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The biggest rock tour of all time has officially been confirmed - and it's Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres world tour

According to new data, Coldplay's latest tour has officially surpassed the likes of U2, The Rolling Stones and Elton John

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"Rock ain’t dead. To who?!" Duff McKagan talks Guns N' Roses, punk rock and how Velvet Revolver proved the haters wrong

From Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to his solo work, Duff McKagan is still a punk kid at heart - with big ambitions

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“I got a letter from Ozzy telling me my services weren’t needed and Axl had gotten rid of me”: How Zakk Wylde launched Black Label Society with the booze-fuelled chaos of Sonic Brew

In the late 1990s, Zakk Wylde formed Black Label Society during time away from Ozzy’s band. Cue lawsuits and a lot of alcohol

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Michael Schenker reveals that Axl Rose sang three songs during sessions for his upcoming album My Years In UFO

According to Michael Schenker, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose is "a perfectionist"

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“My favorite British guitar players are amazing, but they all pale in comparison to the original blues guys. That was their own personal technique, from its origin”: Slash on his journey to discover the original guitar heroes

Orgy of the Damned finds the Guns N' Roses guitarist and A-list guests tackling blues standards that shaped his sound. Here he talks blues gear, the ethos, and how blues can be a force for good

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"I did a Mountain Dew commercial": Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner on making a living as a musician away from the limelight

"You have to be resourceful"

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"I was too drunk." Guns N' Roses man Duff McKagan on the "first and only" time he met Prince

Duff has some serious regrets about meeting the iconic Prince, but it seems he actually made a solid impression

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“Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant

Death stares, Axl Rose and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy are all part of the story of Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel’s A Perfect Circle

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“If Pavarotti had come along and offered to sing Sex Action, I’d have probably said, ‘Yeah, you’re in’”: the wild tale of LA Guns, Hollywood’s most chaotic band

LA Guns laid the groundwork for the Sunset Strip glam metal scene, but they were too combustible to become superstars

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"You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile and mysterious to ever hit Europe. This is the full story

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“You can hear the influence of those riffs on Guns N’ Roses, but I’m sure it’s not a conscious thing. It’s in our subconscious, ingrained in our DNA”: Richard Fortus on how Aerosmith changed his life, and what he and Slash learned from Joe Perry

The GNR guitarist and Aerosmith super-fan explains what makes Joe Perry one of rock guitar's GOATs and the influence he and Brad Whitford had on him, sonically and sartorially

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The 50 greatest acoustic guitar songs of all time

As voted for by you, this list spans some of the most significant acoustic moments ever committed to tape – and features a controversial winner…

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Iconic Los Angeles recording studio the Record Plant to close its doors after more than 50 years of rich rock and metal history

Record Plant in LA has hosted Guns N' Roses, Black Sabbath, Nine Inch Nails, Fleetwood Mac and many others

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“I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up”: Robert Trujillo compares supporting Metallica and Guns ’N’ Roses in the ’90s

Metallica’s bassist supported two of the biggest bands in hard rock during his time in Suicidal Tendencies

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"You’re going to have to prioritize staying clean over everything else." The vital advice Guns N' Roses legend Slash gave Lamb Of God's Mark Morton on kicking addiction

Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton reveals that the Guns N' Roses icon was one of the people that helped him on his path to sobriety

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