12 Mind-Blowing Music Facts You Never Knew

Of all the shocks and surprises we have had from the Guns N' Roses frontman over the years, it is perhaps one of the most unsurprising revelations that his stage name, Axl Rose, can be rearranged to spell 'oral sex'.

No stranger to juvenile antics and childish episodes (ask anyone who has ever gone home early after he has abandoned one of his gigs), in the early eighties the singer decided 'William Bruce Bailey' didn't have enough spunk to it.

A mash-up of his biological father's surname and the name of his band at the time (AXL), William legally changed his name to W. Axl Rose in 1986 and the rest is rock history.