MEDA \\ AXL ROSE Makes GQ's Worst-Dressed List

According to NYDailyNews.com, GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose has made the 2011 worst-dressed list for men's magazine GQ. "It's high time Rose left his clothes out in the November rain," said GQ in a pun on one of the group's songs.

Rose gave a rare interview — his first in-person one in 14 years — last month with the United Arab Emirates outlet Gulf News. Rose granted the interview prior to the band's December 16 gig in Abu Dhabi. Asked about the current version of the group, Rose said, "For me, one of the really cool things is I don't have to get on at everybody in the band. Hey do this, do that, you know. Because they're excited. Everybody takes a certain amount of pride in what they do."

Rose compared playing concerts to "going to the gym," and in perhaps an indirect reference to his notorious late arrivals onstage, he added, "It's just hard to get in the gym."

On the pressure the current incarnation of the group has to live up to its past, Rose commented, "I think it's a lot to do with the material from the past and a hell of a lot to do with the heart that was put into it then. But if we weren't putting the heart into it now . . . the fans, they're not gonna let me get away with it. We have to live up to something, have to work a bit harder because you're living up to the legend or a myth or whatever."

The Gulf News reporter was allegedly told not to ask about certain topics, including Rose's relationship with former members of GUNS.