by Mick Wall
16.Duff McKagan, Slash, Axl and Gilby Clarke onstage at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1992. (Getty Images)
17.Axl and Erin Everly. The girl he married and divorced in less than a year – and wrote ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ for. (Getty Images)
18.The infamous MTV Video Music Awards show in New York, in 2002. According to Nick Kent, ‘Rose looked deeply frightened… his one new song, a terrible self-pitying dirge’. (Getty Images)
19.Buckethead, whom Axl had built a chicken coop for him to record in. (Getty Images)
20.No Axl. No Izzy. The rest pose in the press room during the 27th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony on 14 April 2012. (Getty Images)
21.Velvet Revolver: Duff and Slash onstage with the late Scott Weiland, LA, 2004. (Getty Images)
22.Slash and Meegan Hodges – the love of his life who he was reconciled with after 25 years and a big part behind his decision to reform with Guns N’ Roses – at The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association’s 46th Annual Beastly Ball on 11 June 2016. (Getty Images)
23.Axl and Angus Young of AC/DC perform at the Olympic Stadium in London, 4 June 2016. (Press Association)
24.Axl on his ‘throne’. Coachella festival, 16 April 2016. (Getty Images)
25.The man with the plan. Alan Niven, at his mountain home in Prescott, Arizona, 2016. (Fraser Harding)
Also by Mick Wall:
Prince: Purple Reign
Lemmy: The Definitive Biography
Foo Fighters: Learning to Fly
Getcha Rocks Off
Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of The Doors
Lou Reed: The Life
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
AC/DC: Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
Enter Night: Metallica – The Biography
Appetite for Destruction
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
W.A.R.: The Unauthorised Biography of W.Axl Rose
Bono: In The Name of Love
John Peel: A Tribute to the Much-Loved DJ and Broadcaster
XS All Areas: The Autobiography of Status Quo
Mr Big: Ozzy, Sharon and My Life as the Godfather of Rock, by
Don Arden
Paranoid: Black Days with Sabbath & Other Horror Stories
Run to the Hills: The Authorised Biography of Iron Maiden
Pearl Jam
Guns N’ Roses: The Most Dangerous Band in the World
Diary of a Madman: The Official Biography of Ozzy Osbourne
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