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Guns N' Roses: The Band That Time Forgot: The Complete Unauthorised Biography (Paperback)

~ Paul Stenning (Author)
Key Phrases: guitar solo, iron maiden, interview with the vampire, Axl Rose, Use Your Illusion, Los Angeles (more...)
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Both new and old incarnations of the explosive rock band Guns N' Roses are discussed in this compelling biography. Featuring exclusive interviews with key players on their personal and musical histories and supplemental color photographs, this is a comprehensive look at where the band started, the reasons behind their infamous split in 1994, and what the original members are doing now. This fully revised edition contains information on the highly anticipated Summer 2005 release of Chinese Democracy, Axl's first release in 10 years, as well as details of ex–lead guitarist Slash and ex–bass player Duff's hot new band, Velvet Revolver.


About the Author

Paul Stenning is a regular contributor to numerous music publications, mostly in the heavy metal genre, including Metal Hammer, Record Collector, and Terrorizer magazines.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Chrome Dreams; Revised edition (September 28, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1842403141
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842403143
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #298,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)


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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars What A Rip-Off, March 31, 2006
By AER (USA) - See all my reviews
I wasn't exactly expecting greatness from this book, but I still could not believe how poorly written and incoherent this thing was. Paul Stenning should get himself to a basic English composition class immediately -- while there have been other reviewers who have mentioned typos, the problems are far worse than that. In paragraph after paragraph there were long, rambling sentences that made no sense and could have been written better by a stoned teenager. Even worse, when the prose does make sense, it's because a huge amount of this "unauthorized" material is blatantly plagiarised word-for-word from articles previously published in magazines like Rolling Stone, Spin, and others, with no credit given to the actual reporters who did the real work of finding such information. I don't think the lawyers who work for such magazines would look on this practice very kindly. Don't waste your money on this garbage; you can find better (and more coherent) information simply by surfing the web for a couple hours. The above rating is one star; that's only because Amazon doesn't allow you to select no stars at all.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Good thing it was cheap, June 10, 2006
By Heather Manns (Middletown, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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I am a huge fan of Guns n Roses and Velvet Revolver and thought this would make a great read. But right at the beginning I could tell that the author has no writing skills whatsoever. He really needed to fire his editor because there were quite a few mispellings and grammatical errors, but that wasn't the biggest flaw with the book. Most of the information is taken from magazine interviews and the rest seems to be complete hearsay. It would have been nice for the author to actually talk to the bandmembers in length before devoting a whole book to them. I feel that it was unfair, mostly to Slash, Izzy, Steve and Duff.
He made Axl out to be some god, which he is far from being. It was the other guys who had the drug problem, not Axl. YEAH RIGHT!

Either way, the book is poorly written so try to buy it used or borrow someone else's if you really want to read it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The Book That Should Be Forgotten, January 10, 2007
By Bryan Auge (Windsor, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This is possibly the worst book I've ever read. It reads like something a teenager would hand in for English class. There are many spelling mistakes, punctuation errors, duplication of sentences/quotes and places where Mr. Stenning just uses the wrong words. Mr. Stenning seems to think that asking questions is a writing style. Note to Mr. Stenning - That's the reason I'm reading the book, to find out the answers to the questions that you ask. I find it hard to believe that an editor even looked at this. The only solace is that there is some information in it for the hardcore fan, if you can endure the slop that Mr. Stenning passes for writing and sift through the "Axl can do no wrong" theme that pervades this book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars How did this get published?
I can't believe anyone even published this piece of garbage. The book read like the writer simply scribbled down thoughts as they occurred to him, used the wrong words, repeated... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dr.D

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
This was truly a good book on Guns N'Roses while it was acurate it didn't throw anybody under the bus and didn't try to make anybody the bad guy. Overall it was a good fun read
Published 13 months ago by Charles Pressler

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money
What a horrible book, and this is coming from a HUGE GNR fan. I could go on for pages as to why this book sucks, but I will keep it short. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Jesse Elliott

2.0 out of 5 stars It was midly interesting
It was okay but I definately don't reccomend anyone to buy it. Its totally inaccurate (At some parts) and it seems to want to focus on Axl a lot of the time more than the band... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Anne

1.0 out of 5 stars Regurgitated facts; nothing new or original; too many typos!
I am a really big GNR fan and I have a large collection of biographies. When I heard about this one, naturally I had to buy a copy. Read more
Published on June 9, 2006 by Jessica Lux

5.0 out of 5 stars guns n' roses the band time forgot
The band that time forgot is a bad name for this book. Guns n' Roses is a band that no one has forgotten about. Read more
Published on March 30, 2006 by justin time

1.0 out of 5 stars The Book I Can't Forget
Paul Stenning has as much business writing about Guns N' Roses as I do singing for them.

First and foremost, this book is not accurate and isn't presented in any... Read more
Published on March 13, 2006 by Parisrocks

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read For Gunners Fans
I have just started to read this book, and so far it is great. I have heard on the grape vine that this book contains alot of what can be found in magazine interviews etc.. Read more
Published on February 3, 2006 by Mr. S. Venner

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY mediocre in some areas,WAY too many typos,BUT....
Still worth owning if you are a Guns N' Roses fan.

Here,British journalist Paul Stenning traces the entire career and story of Guns N' Roses--one of the world's most... Read more
Published on January 27, 2006 by Some Gravity

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome from start to finish!
This is just a fantastic, deeply probing account of one of the most misunderstood bands of all time. Read more
Published on December 5, 2005 by Linda

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