Celebrity Name : Axl Rose

Celebrity Real Name : William Bailey

Date of Birth : February 6, 1962

Birth Location : Lafayette, Indiana

Biography :
Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr. on February 6, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American hard rock singer and songwriter. His mother remarried when he was an infant, and changed Rose’s name to William Bailey, using the last name of her new husband Stephen Bailey. At the age of 17, he readopted the name William Rose, and would later legally change it to W. Axl Rose.He is best known as the lead singer of Guns N’ Roses, and is the only original member still part of the band’s line-up. Although he is regarded by many as one of hard rock’s all-time greatest frontmen, Rose is also infamous for his onstage antics, disputes with former bandmates, and for his constant rewriting of the still-unreleased Chinese Democracy album.

Trivia :
Axl plays the voice of Tommy “The Nightmare” Smith, former lead singer of the (made-up) 1970’s rock band Crystal Ship, and radio DJ of K-DST in the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.The character Axl Low in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games is clearly named and designed from Rose, as is the Fighting Vipers character Raxel, who wields a guitar. In addition, one of the enemies in Final Fight is named after him (another is named and patterned after Slash).Axl plays acoustic guitar on the Guns N’ Roses song “Dead Horse” and rhythm guitar on “Shotgun Blues”, on the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II respectively.Inducted Elton John into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.[wikipedia]