1- Axl Rose born in Lafayette, Indiana February 6, 1962
2- He has two younger siblings-a sister, Amy, and a half-brother, Stuart.
3- When Axl was writing “Sweet Child o’ Mine,” he listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd records over and over to inspire the song’s sound.
4- Axl Rose had a stalker whose name was Karen Jane McNeil and according to sources she was quite persistent in her advances. She had even claimed that she used to have telepathic communication with Axl Rose.
5- Axl made a surprise appearance at the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward in London, England in 2006.
6- Axl has a tattoo of the 3rd Armored Division emblem on his left arm. Below it is the phrase “Victory or Death.”
7- Axl Rose was so broke before joining the band Guns N Roses that he joined a UCLA medical study where he had to smoke cigarettes and for this he was paid $8.
8- Axl Rose’s relationship with music started since he was 5 years old. He sang in the church choir. Rose also been singing with his sister and brother, the Bailey Trio.
9- In the Clint Eastwood film The Dead Pool, Axl has a small uncredited part as a musician at a funeral.
10- Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME.
11- Axl is a collector of Latin American religious artifacts, particularly crucifixes.
12- Axl Rose is close friends with Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach.
13- In the late 90s, Axl was considered a recluse, spending most of his time in his mansion in Malibu.
14- Axl Rose is a huge Elton John fan, and made a presentation when John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. The two also sang a duet of “Bohemian Rhapsody” at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.
15- In 2012, Rose was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N’ Roses, though he declined to attend the event and requested exclusion from the Hall.
16- The song “Chinese Democracy” was Axl’s emotional tribute to John Lennon’s death.
17- He is of paternal Scots-Irish and maternal German ancestry
18- Axl often travels with his own psychic, Sharon Maynard, who is known in his entourage as “Yoda.”
19- In various media reports, he was referred to as the “Howard Hughes of rock” and “rock’s greatest recluse.”
20- Guns N Roses’s biggest hit song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” was written in just 5 minutes!
21- In 2012, Guns N’ Roses played Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit, performing acoustic numbers in hopes to raise money for disabled children
22- His earliest conscious memory is of holding a toy gun in his hand.
23- Axl Rose has a tabby cat named Dijon
24- Axl loves Christina Aguilera, proclaiming her “one of the greatest vocalists of our time” in Blender.
25- Rose lent his voice to the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, in which he adopted the persona of Tommy “The Nightmare” Smith, the radio DJ of classic rock station K-DST The Dust.
26- In high school, Axl sang in the chorus and studied piano. He also formed a band with his friends. Among them, Jeff Isbell, who would later become Axl’s Guns N’ Roses bandmate and change his name to Izzy Stradlin.
27- Slash’s nickname for Axl used to be “the Ayatollah.”
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