Axl Rose is an American singer who uses his unique voice to confuse his high school teachers and has won millions of hearts on live tours and legendary music releases. However, his rough childhood and notorious manners left him frustrated while growing up. Despite his past, Axl became the lead singer and co-founder of legendary hard rock band Guns N Roses . He was the only member who never left the group since its inception in 1985. Rose was named the greatest singer of all time by The Rolling Stones in 2017. He is also credited with being the lead singer of another band called The AC/DC . Rose was pinned to the walls ofRock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. The hard rock singing sensation has over 2 million fans on his Twitter account.

Born name

William Bruce Rose Jr.

nickname

W. Axl Rose, William Bruce Bailey, Bill Rose und Bill Bailey

Sun sign

Aquarius

Place of birth

Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Residence

Malibu, California, USA

nationality

training

Axl Rose had attended Jefferson High School but stopped attending school when he found out about his birth father.

occupation

Singer, songwriter, record producer, musician

family

• Father – Bruce Rose
• Mutter – Sharon Elizabeth
• Siblings – Amy Bailey (Sister), Stuart (Stepbrother)
• Others – Dale Owen Rose (paternal grandfather), Mary Mae Rittenhouse (paternal grandmother), Earl Ray Lintner (maternal grandfather), Anna Amelia Rosenbrock (maternal grandmother)

Manager

William Axl Rose is represented by Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.

Genre

Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Industrial Rock

instruments

Vocals, piano, guitar, keyboards, drums

labels

UMG Recordings Inc., Geffen Records (1986), UZI Suicide (Part of Geffen), Black Frog

To build

Average

Height

5 feet 9 inches or 175 cm

weight

78 kg or 172 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Axl W. Rose has dated

1. Sheila Kennedy – rumour
2. Yvonne Kobayashi – Rumor
3. Alycen Rowse – Rumor
4. Olivia Williams – Rumor
5. Caron Bernstein – Rumour
6. Lindi Hingston – Rumour
7. Ellen Jabour – Rumor
8. Bridgette Monroe – Adult film stars Bridget Monroe and Axl Rose have had a past encounter.
9. Gina Sailer (1979-1983) – Astronomers Gina Sailor and Axl Rose dated for about 4 years before breaking up in 1983.
10. Pamela Manning (1983) – Rumour
11. Yvonne Simon (1984) – Rumour
12. Michelle Young (1985)
13. Monique Lewis (1985) – A mature and glamorous model, Monique Lewis was in a relationship with Axl in 1985 that lasted no more than a year.
14. Adriana Smith (1985) – P*rnstar Adriana Smith teamed up with Axl, which turned out to be quite important for Axl’s debut album Destruction Like during recording in Manhattan, microphones were set up on the floor to record Rose and Adrianna, who actually s* x had in the studio and these sounds were put into his song.
15. Erin Everly (1986-1991) – American model Erin Everly and Axl married in 1986 and was the follow-up to Rose’s famous love song ‘Sweet Child O Mine’. In 1994, she accused and sued Axl of assault and sexual chaos. Erin gave the reason for the couple’s short-lived married life because Axl believed that she had killed her [Erin and Axl] children in their previous lives and that was why he was mean to her.
16. Savannah (1991)
17. Stephanie Seymour (1991-1993) – Model Stephanie Seymour and Axl got Rose fell deeply in love with her and was very attached to their three-year-old son Dylan. However, Stephanie later dumped him to marry a multi-million dollar businessman. This left Rose heartbroken and devastated. In November 1993, Axl added a hidden track entitled Watch Your Game, Girl , to his cover album The Spaghetti Incident? written by Charles Mansion, a convicted murderer.
18. Elle Macpherson (1993) – rumour
19. Jennifer Driver (1994) – Rumor
20. Dyan O’Connor (2006) – The Best of Dyan O’Connor
21. Deniz Akkaya (2006) – Turkish model is speculated to have met Axl at Istanbul GN’R Show 2006. However, their relationship was short-lived.
22. Kat Mack (2006) – Rumour
23. Sasha Volkova (2006-2007) – rumor
24. Lana Del Rey (2012) – Rumour

race/ethnicity

White

He is of German, Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh descent.

hair colour

Dark Brown (Natural)

He often dyes his hair blonde.

eye color

Blau

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• High vocal range
• Tight-fitting leather trousers
• Long hair

brand promotion

Axl Rose has worked for various brands such as Dr. Pepper (2008) and Budweiser .

Religion

In his early years his parents brought him into a Pentecostal church.

Known for

• The lead singer of his band Guns N’ Roses
• With a high vocal ability
• His stage criticism towards his fans

First album

Guns N Roses released their debut album Destruction in 1987.

first movie

In 1988, Axl W. Rose made his debut as a musician at the funeral in Berlin Das tote Becken with Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry), Liam Neeson and Patricia Clarkson.

First TV show

Rose made his television debut in the documentary Arena as himself in 1989.

Personal trainer

His exercise and diet plan is not publicly known.

Axl Rose favorite things

• Band – Queen
• Singer – Freddie Mercury (Queen)
• Books – Face Stephen King, James Dean: The Mutant King (David Dalton) and Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

Axl Rose facts

1. When Axl was born, his mother was 16 and his father, Bruce, was 20. At the time of his birth, Axl’s mother was still a high school student.
2. At the age of 2, Axl was kidnapped and abused by his own father after his parents divorced.
3. Axl was believed to be suffering from an abnormal condition called psychosis.
4. Rose’s birth wasn’t something his teenage parents planned.
5. Axl’s stepfather would also physically abuse him, his mother, and his stepbrother, and would sexually abuse his stepsister.
6. Axl began developing his vocal skills at a young age at a church his parents attended every Sunday. There his first group called “Bailey Trio” began.
7. In October 1990, Rose was devastated by a miscarriage suffered by Erin Everly.
8. In the early months of the 1990’s, Axl began to undergo homeopathic treatments in order to rediscover his memories from the past.
9. A few years after Axl’s father abandoned him and his mother in 1964, his mother married Stephen L. Bailey and his name was changed to William Bruce Bailey.
10. Until the age of 17, Axl did not know who his biological father was. However, he never got the chance to meet him as his father was murdered in Marion, Illinois in 1984 by one of his crime buddies and his body was never recovered.
11. Because of his band Guns N’Roses, Axl Rose has been involved with legends like Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.
12. After learning about his birth father, William decided to change his name to William Rose.
13. William Axl Rose has been arrested more than 30 times for public intoxication as well as several other offences. He received a final warning from the police, prompting him to move to Los Angeles in December 1982.
14. He later formed a band called AXL and, at his friend’s suggestion, legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose.
15. The s*x heard on Axl’s debut album Destroyers were real.
16. To ease his difficult musical succession, Rose began working as a night manager at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard.
17. Axl and his childhood friend, Izzy Stradlin, started smoking cigarettes for a scientific research conducted by UCLA and they were being paid $8 an hour.
18. In March 1985, he formed the legendary band Guns N’Roses with former band member Tracii Guns .
19. The Guns N’Roses title name came from Axl’s band Hollywood Rose and Tracii Guns’ band LA Guns .
20. In 1986 he signed with Geffen Records.
21. In July 1987, the band performed Guns N’ Roses and released their first album entitled Destroying Desire which hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart in August 1988 and again hit #1 on the Billboard 200 chart in February 1989.
22. In the first year of their album launch of Destructive Desire, Year One sold more than 5,00,000 copies. The album has sold over 30 million copies worldwide to date, making it the best-selling debut album in the US.
23. In 1988, after 2 people were killed at the performance of Guns N’ Roses at the Rock Monsters Festival in Castle Donington, England, Rose became widely known for breaking up concerts to appeal to annoying fans and security guards, ordering them to remain in control.
24. With the launch of her second hit album G N’R Lies in 1988, Rose was accused of promoting anti-Black and homophobic lines in his song One in a Million .
25. By August 1989, Rose had created such a distinctive image as rock’s best frontman that he was on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine.
26. In 1990, Rose fired his drummer Steven Adler for substance abuse.
27. Due to the controversial events that occurred at the concert of Use Your Illusion Tour in May 1991, the band began to get a bad reputation and caused 2500 people riots causing a total damage of $200,000.
28. In 1992, controversy arose over his song One in a Million because of gay men, his musical group was not featured by the New York AIDS benefit show during a health crisis for gay men .
29. Rose was considered one of the best hard rock singers of the ’90s and certainly the most charming.
30. In November 1992, Axl Rose was convicted and placed on probation for 2 years for assault and property damage after failing to perform at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, resulting in $400,000 in property damage.
31. From 1994 to 2000 Roses band Guns N’Roses were on hiatus.
32. In August 1993, a wrongful dismissal lawsuit was filed against Axl Rose by his former drummer Steven Adler, who ultimately lost Rose. Axl had to pay him $2,500,000 and 15% of the total royalties for the recordings made and released when Steven and Axl were dating.
33. Axl’s mother, Sharon E. Bailey, died on May 28, 1996.
34. In November 1993, Rose had unveiled a secret track called Watch Your Game, Girl that was written by convicted murderer Charles Manson.
35. On July 17, 1993, Rose played his last live show with the band in Buenos Aries, taking a break of more than 7 years.
36. By 1997, all of the group’s original musicians had left because they were indifferent to Rose’s decision to hire his childhood friend Paul Tobias in place of his guitarist, Gilby Clarke.
37. In 1998, Axl was arrested for threatening airport security for checking his suitcases.
38. In 2004, he did voiceover work for the hit game Grand Theft Auto San Andreas .
39. Rose had refused to let the director of Black Hawk Down use his song “Welcome to the Jungle.”
40. In 2005, Guns N’Roses band members Slash and Duff McKagan filed a lawsuit against Rose for $1 million, claiming that he was the sole owner of the group’s copyrights.
41. In the past, Axl and former band members have teamed up to file a lawsuit against their record company, Geffen, for not releasing their greatest hits compilation album.
42. He was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N’ Roses in 2012.
43. In 2012, Axl was ambushed by thieves who stole $200,000 worth of jewelry while walking down a street in Paris.
44. During his induction into the Hall of Fame , Axl did not attend the ceremony. Instead, he wrote a letter to the studio telling them he wasn’t going to make it.
45. In April 2015, Axl Rose sent a letter to the President of Indonesia, urging him to stop using the death penalty on Bali Nine for smuggling $4 million worth of drugs into Australia. However, he received no reply and the execution was carried out; 2 were executed while the rest were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
46. In 2016, Axl was performing in Los Angeles when the band reunited, and got into a wheelchair after breaking his foot during a warm-up session for the Guns N’ Roses tour.
47. In May 2018 Guns N’ Roses staged the most anticipated live concert ever and surprisingly it was their highest grossing tour.
48. Visit his band’s official website at @ gunsnroses.com.
49. Follow him on Twitter.