everyone's favourite asshole

He is the frontman for Guns n' Roses. The only orginal bandmember left, and one of only 2 members from GNR's heyday left, the other one being keyboardist dizzy reed. He is right behind Robert Plant and Ozzy Osbourne for the title of greatest metal frontman ever, and had he produced more music, I'm sure he'd be on top. He is known for his high, powerful voice, his stage presence, his trademark tights and bandana, his wildness, and his occasional sentimental side.
He was born in Indiana in 1962 as William Bruce Rose Jr. When he was a baby, his abusive birth father left the family and he was renamed William Bruce Bailley for his stepfather, who beat up him & his mom and molested him at 2. As a teenager, he got tired of his stepfather, his town, and his fundamentalist christian upbringing, and left for LA. He wanted to drop his stepfather's name, but didn't want his dad's name (apparently his dad beat his mom while she was pregnant with him) so he became W. Axl Rose.
In LA, while in Hollywood Rose (a band) he met up with childhood friend Izzy Stradlin, who was in LA Guns. There were various lineup shuffles, and eventually Izzy and Axl formed Guns n' Roses. After several more lineup changes, GNR emerged with Duff McKagan, Steven Adler

The man who drove apart one of if not the greatest band of all time, becoming a power-hungry, self-centered imbecile. Released an album under Guns N' Roses despite the fact that it should have been called "Axl N' Friends" Named by some as "king of the douchebags"

See also: douchebag

Synonym for douchebag.

The world's greatest singer and the world's greatest asshole at the same time. The definition of tortured genius. Amen.

Someone who's friends have left him because he has become too obnoxious and big headed. And then he acts like he left the group, and wasn't kicked out. He tries to build a new group to replace the old one, but with mediocre versions of the same people.

Anagram for "oral sex". This is how the name was derived.