Guns N' Roses

Aaron Eckhart’s teenage obsessions: ‘Pink Floyd saved my life’

The Hollywood star recalls his childhood in San Jose, Sydney and Walton-on-Thames, falling for Grease and Macbeth – and his enduring love for The Young Ones

As told to Rich Pelley

22, Jul, 2021 @12:00 PM

Hamlet! James Bond! Lady Gaga! The cultural events we’ve waited too long for

Since March 2020 the pandemic has taken a big red marker pen to the cultural calendar – here are the longest postponements across the arts

Graeme Virtue

15, May, 2021 @9:00 AM

Guns N' Roses: how they soundtracked my last gasp of pre-teen freedom

In the first of a new series on the artists who had a formative influence on our writers, Rebecca Nicholson celebrates the hysterical melodrama of Axl Rose and co

Rebecca Nicholson

20, Jan, 2021 @11:12 AM

Lars Ulrich's fantasy festival: AC/DC and Bob Marley on Easter Island

As well as brushing up on Polynesian migration paths with a falafel in hand, the Metallica drummer imagines ancient rock giants next to giant ancient rocks

Interview by Dave Simpson

20, Aug, 2020 @4:00 PM

'Music is as good as gold or oil': meet the man spending billions on old hits

Former Elton John and Beyoncé manager Merck Mercuriadis on championing artists and his business buying over 13,000 songs

Mark Sweney

08, Aug, 2020 @6:00 AM

Rock against racism? Metal's varied response to Black Lives Matter

Black Sabbath and Axl Rose are among those in the metal world supporting protests, but there’s no denying the opinions of others in the genre

Michael Hann

22, Jun, 2020 @1:50 PM

It's no bed of roses trying to get updates from Ticketmaster

Our Guns N’ Roses concert is only days away but communication is ‘unbelievably bad’

Rebecca Smithers

19, May, 2020 @6:00 AM

James Patterson joins Guns N’ Roses to write ... a sweet child’s book?

After Bill Clinton, the thriller king has turned to the monsters of rock for his next collaboration. Precedent suggests it might not be that bad

Alison Flood

11, May, 2020 @1:59 PM

Trump's treasury secretary attacks Axl Rose's patriotism but mixes up US and Liberian flags

The Guns N’ Roses frontman exchanged words with Steve Mnuchin on Twitter about the Trump administration’s coronavirus response

Poppy Noor

07, May, 2020 @3:28 PM

Live and Let Die plays as Trump visits mask factory without a mask

As the president toured the Arizona facility the song blasted – and many couldn’t help but notice a metaphor

Poppy Noor

06, May, 2020 @4:07 PM

Guns N' Roses sue brewery over Guns 'N' Rosé beer

Rock band argue the beer will look to consumers like an official product and has caused them ‘irreparable damage’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

10, May, 2019 @9:03 AM

Slash on his greatest hits: ‘John Lennon had his lost weekend. I had a lost decade’

The hard rock guitarist picks the best of his back catalogue, from his ‘feral’ Guns N’ Roses heyday to Velvet Revolver and collaborations with Bob Dylan and Lemmy