Guns N' Roses

Guns N’ Roses: Danger Lurks Beyond The Doors

Profile by Simon Reynolds, Observer, The, August 1991

No other rock band today provokes such polarised opinions as Guns N' Roses. For some, they are 'the most dangerous band in the world', heirs ...

Izzy Stradlin

Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, March 2001

SHAKING THE notoriety gained following six years on the road with Guns N' Roses was never going to be the easiest of tasks. But Izzy ...

Guns N' Roses: Colt Heroes

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, June 1987

"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...

Guns N'Roses: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, October 1987

"THIS SONG is my favourite," screams part-man-mostly-dog guitarist Slash, Guns N'Roses' mascot pimple. "It's for all you thrashers out there and it's dedicated to BLOW-jobs ...

Guns N' Roses: Slash and The Cash

Interview by Steve Mascord, On The Street, December 1988

BLINK, AND you'll miss a band being compared to the Rolling Stones. Everyone from the Monkees to Crowded House to your local pub group have ...

Guns' N' Roses

Profile and Interview by Simon Witter, Sky, 1991

ONLY DAYS INTO Guns N' Roses' world tour and there was trouble. At a St Louis stadium Axl Rose jumped into the audience to snatch ...

Guns N' Roses: Tears Before Bedtime?

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Q, July 1991

Axl fired the band. The band fired Axl. Then they made up – and fired the drummer instead. Slash checked into rehab — than checked ...

Guns N' Roses: Welcome To My Nightmare

Interview by Nick Kent, Vox, October 1991

Guns N' Roses are undoubtably the biggest noises in rock. But for how long? Would you buy two simultaneously released LPs at full price? Will ...

Guns N’ Roses: Wimps ‘R’ Us

Essay by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, October 1991

SMART BOYS DON'T talk about anarchy; stupid boys don't know about it. It's hard to imagine, say, Emma Goldman (who, true, was not really a ...

Slash Speaks

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Music Life, November 1991

THE PLUSH CONRAD HOTEL at Chelsea Harbour has for some reason (maybe it's the copious amount of Moet & Chandon champagne in the minibar!) become ...

Axl Rose: The Mussolini Of Mass Culture

Profile by Toby Young, Modern Review, The, Summer 1992

FEW THINGS ARE MORE CAPABLE of convincing you that rock 'n' roll is dead than a benefit concert. The spectacle of all those cadaverous rock ...

Guns N’ Roses: Duff McKagan talks

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1993

"SO, WHEN WE got back from the Appetite tour, I bought this big house, bought all this furniture, I was by myself, I was divorced, ...

Slash: Trigger with Attitude

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar, February 1995

After a whole year of well-publicised feuds with Axl Rose, Guns N' Roses' Slash has now cut loose to record his own album with a ...

In Bed With... Slash

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, July 1995

WHEN WERE you first aware of the birds and the bees? ...

Q&A with Slash

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996

YOU HAVE a house in the Hollywood Hills, you have a wife, you have housepets, you're the most unpunk I've ever seen you. A fine ...

Guns N’ Roses: Together Again?

Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996

GUNS N’Roses is back from the dead. Five years after the release of their last new material — the epic Use Your Illusion I and ...

Neurotic Outsiders: Duff and Matt talk records

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1996

The first record you ever bought Matt: 1966, A Hard Day’s Night. I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show — I was ...

Democracy in Action: Guns N'Roses

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 2001

THURSDAY IS a low-key night at The Cat on Sunset. Proprietor, Slim Jim Phantom, ex-Stray Cats drummer and current self-styled Prince Of The Strip, has ...

The Madness of King Axl

Report by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2002

AS OPPRESSIVE darkness gradually envelops Temple Newsam, a remote agrarian idyll that annually plays host to the Leeds leg of the Carling Festival, the all-pervasive ...

Guns N' Roses: Meltdown

Report by Nick Kent, Guardian, The, 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 ...

Guns N'Roses: Chinese Democracy

Review by Jim Irvin, Word, The, 2009

"ALL I'VE got is time" sings Axl Rose in the opening, title song of Chinese Democracy. ...

Guns N' Roses: Reading Festival, Berkshire

Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, August 2010

Axl flounders as Reading made to wait for its rock fix ...