Guns N' Roses: Meltdown
Nick Kent, Guardian, The, 3 January 2003
With Guns N' Roses, he was one of the biggest and baddest rockers on the planet. Now his new album is a decade late (and still not completed), and his tour has collapsed amid riots and no-shows. Is Axl Rose finished? By Nick Kent
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