false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256113587m/3185413.jpg 3185413 4 <B>From the <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author, the complete story of the last rock supergroup— from their drugfueled blast-off in the 1980s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose and his fifteen-year, multi-million dollar effort to make the perfect hardrock album.</B><BR><BR>With 90 million of the band’s records sold worldwide since 1987, Guns N’ Roses prolonged rock music past its sell-by date with controversial albums and immense, often riotous world tours. But the band’s complete story has never been fully told—until now. In his sixth major rock biography, Stephen Davis details the riveting story of a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to set attendance records on the biggest stadiums on the planet.<BR><BR> <I>Watch You Bleed</I> documents the improbable story of W. Axl Rose, the biggest rock star of his generation. Taken from an abusive father in his infancy, he was raised as “Bill Bailey” in a strictly religious Indiana household by a stepfather who beat him for playing Led Zeppelin songs on the family piano. After quitting high school, and on the run from the police in his hometown, Axl arrived in Los Angeles in the midst of the street battles for supremacy among the top music genres of the eighties—post-punk, thrash, hair metal, and glam. The book also charts the backgrounds of every band member, especially Slash, a Hollywood street kid whose designer mother dated David Bowie.<BR><BR> Davis brilliantly captures the birth of Guns’ raw power, which—despite rape charges, drug-induced rampages, and a general appetite for destruction— launched the band into the pantheon of rock gods such as Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. With a wealth of detail, Davis looks at Axl’s unrelenting quest to release the long-awaited, mystery-shrouded <I>Chinese Democracy</I> album, as well as the further adventures of some of the Gunners under the banner of the hard-rocking band Velvet Revolver. For the first time, millions of Guns N’ Roses fans will learn the whole truth—sometimes funny, sometimes tragic—about the last of the great rock bands. 3218275 26 8 2008 Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses total:89|5:23|4:24|3:23|2:13|1:6| 89 312 156 37 1 1 false false Wed Jan 07 07:36:36 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 12:16:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Dec 30 06:45:39 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 06:54:07 -0800 2008
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Things I learned from this book:

Too much vodka (about a liter every day for ten years or so) will make your pancreas explode.

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