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Bikers, fire hoses and looting: the story of the Guns N' Roses fan riot in St. Louis
By Henry Yates last updated
On July 2, 1991, the infamous 'Rocket Queen riot' kicked off during a Guns N' Roses show at the Riverport Amphitheater in St. Louis. This is what happened

“I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up”: Robert Trujillo compares supporting Metallica and Guns ’N’ Roses in the ’90s
By Matt Mills published
Metallica’s bassist supported two of the biggest bands in hard rock during his time in Suicidal Tendencies

That time a student in Ohio won Axl Rose's apartment in a competition and got to evict him
By Fraser Lewry published
"The bed's never been slept in - I'm not saying it hasn't been used" - Axl Rose

Glastonbury would welcome more rock acts, but there aren't a lot of new rock bands around, apparently
By Paul Brannigan published
Glastonbury booker Emily Eavis isn't exactly saying that rock is dead, but...

How Slash organised Orgy Of The Damned
By David Sinclair published
With his recent album Orgy Of The Damned – a selection of classics, each sung by a different guest singer – Slash is the latest rock superstar to take the blues road

Axl Rose appears on an upcoming Michael Schenker album of classic UFO songs
By Fraser Lewry last updated
The first song released from Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO album stars Slash and former Skid Row man Erik Grönwall

Runnin' with the devil: The stories behind the songs on Slash's Orgy of the Damned
By David Sinclair published
From Robert Johnson to Lightning Hopkins, The Temptations to Stevie Wonder: The original versions of Slash's Orgy Of The Damned songs

Duff McKagan announces solo UK and European tour
By Fraser Lewry published
The Guns N' Roses bassist will play 15 shows in 11 countries in support of last year's Lighthouse album

"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take
By Paul Brannigan published
On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

"We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together
By Fraser Lewry published
The Guns N' Roses and Alice In Chains men have contributed to each other's solo releases in the past and are now considering taking the relationship further
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