SLASH WAS DEAD;
IZZY WAS IN REHAB;
AXL HAD QUIT...
THEN THINGS REALLY GOT OUT OF CONTROL.
Guns N' Roses have always been a band out of time, the Last of the Giants.
Even in the 1980s, when they were just starting out, these watch-yourself, flash-ass freaks from the Strip refused to play by the rules. At a time when smiling, safe-sex, just-say-no rock ruled, here was a band that had leapt straight out of the blood-spiked, coke-smothered pages of the original, golden-age, late-sixties rock scene.
And there was the music. Like Elton John meets the New York Dolls.
Like Queen sharing a ride with Iggy and the Stooges. You heard 'Welcome To The Jungle' and you knew you'd just turned a wrong corner. We got everything you want, wheezed Axl as Slash flicked open his guitar like a switchblade. And you shuddered to think of it, knowing it was true.
Mick Wall, who has known the band since their earliest days, has spent years interviewing them, their entourage and the most significant members of their management team. He not only knows the names, he allows them to speak with a juddering candour in this most revealing, insightful account ever of this extraordinary band.
Now reunited after 20 years in the abyss, this is the true, no-plan-B story of Guns N' Fuckin' Roses, baby. Suck on it and see.