guns n roses

A little friendly rivalry between musicians is usually a good thing for everybody involved — by encouraging a spirit of good-natured competition, performers have added incentive to improve their skills, and a few snappy jibes at each other’s expense are sure to garner a little extra publicity for both bands. On the other hand, it’s entirely possible to go a bit too far, to the point where people remember you less for your music and more for bitching at each other in the press and/or getting shot to death. Come to think of it, if someone gets shot to death that’s probably a worse problem than the ...

Most of us couldn’t write a song to save our lives. It takes a certain gift to not only compose music, but to then think of lyrics to accompany it that don’t completely botch the whole thing. Yet, there have been many talented musicians throughout the years that have done just that over and over again, and we envy those people as it is. So, when we found out that the following list of hit songs were written by musicians who were just clowning around, well, let’s just say it made us sick. Not really. It’s actually quite interesting. Here are ten famous hit songs that were originally written as ...

If you know anything at all about the music industry, you’re probably familiar with the phrase “creative differences.” As a form of doublespeak for “the band is breaking up,” it covers a remarkably wide spectrum of musical disagreements, ranging from amicable separations between musicians wanting to explore new sounds and genres to absurd and insane intra-band fights so heated and violent that sometimes the cops have to get involved. Since the latter form of creative difference is way more fun to read about than the former, we aim to present you with ten of the angriest, craziest and ...

“Sex, drugs and rock-and-roll” was a mantra for a generation, but the mantra lives on. While Nancy Reagan may have wanted kids to “Just Say No” to drugs, it didn’t take, at least not for musicians who continue to record songs about the mind-altering affects of marijuana, cocaine and alcohol. Click forward to see 20 of the most famous songs about drugs. 1. “Heroin” by The Velvet Underground (1967) A seven-minute opus on heroin that starts slow but builds to a frantic crescendo. You can’t get more clarity about drugs than a title called “Heroin.” ...

Rock stars are people too, and even they grow old. For proof, we gathered a bunch of pictures of our rock-and-roll heroes as we want to remember them, and compared those pictures to what they look like now. With the added damage inflicted by years of alcohol and drug abuse, the results were not pretty. Let's start with iconic Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose. Click to the next slide to see how he's doing these days.  ...