Axl Rose ... he has, apparently, fired his manager three times in the last five weeks. Photograph: Alexander Sibaja/Getty Images
It's not just Guns N' Roses fans who were disappointed with Chinese Democracy – so was Axl Rose himself. Fed up with the album's poor sales, the band's frontman has locked himself in his home and is not coming out, according to reports.
"[Axl] won't come out of his house," a source told the New York Daily News. "[He] doesn't want anything to do with [the album]."
Almost 15 years in the making, Chinese Democracy was finally released in 2008. Despite the fanfare around its completion, the album failed to make a substantial chart impact – peaking at no 2 in the UK and no 3 in the US. The title single only rose as high as no 27.
Axl Rose has also fired and re-hired manager Irving Azoff at least three times in the past five weeks, according to the source – described as "close" to Azoff. But "Axl is Axl. People get hired and fired all the time in this business."
Azoff's office doesn't seem particularly concerned. Asked about the relationship with their client, a spokesman said, "We're in daily contact with Axl, and we look forward to continuing to support him and Guns N' Roses."
Although a major world tour was expected this summer, Guns N' Roses have yet to announce any concert plans for 2009.
Two packs of cigarettes a day
The strongest whiskey
Kentucky can make
That's a recipe to put a vagabond
On his hands and knees
I watched it all up close,
I knew him more than most
I saw a side of him he never showed
Full of sympathy for a world that
Wouldn't let him be
That's the man he was,
Have you heard enough?
What a shame, what a shame,
To judge a life that you can't change
The choir sings, the church bells ring
So, won't you give this man his wings?
What a shame to have to beg you to
See we're not all the same
What a shame
There's a hard life for every silver spoon
There's a touch of grey for every shade
Of blue
That's the way that I see life
If there was nothing wrong,
Then there'd be nothing right
And for this working man they say could
Barely stand
There's gotta be a better place to land
Some kind of remedy for a world that
Wouldn't let him be
That's the man he was,
Have you heard enough?
What a shame, what a shame,
To judge a life that you can't change
The choir sings, the church bells ring
So, won't you give this man his wings?
What a shame to have to beg you to
See we're not all the same
What a shame
God forgive the hands that laid you down
They never knew how much a broken heart can break the sound and change the season
Now the leaves are falling faster,
Happily ever after
You gave me hope through your endeavors
And now you will live forever
What a shame, what a shame,
To judge a life that you can't change
The choir sings, the church bells ring
So, won't you give this man his wings?
What a shame to have to beg you to
See we're not all the same
What a shame, what a shame
'Cause we're not all the same
What a shame, what a shame
'Cause we're not all the same
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