{"id":23415,"date":"2025-12-10T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23415"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:45:54","slug":"from-a-difficult-childhood-to-rock-fame-the-pain-that-formed-a-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=23415","title":{"rendered":"From a difficult childhood to rock fame: The pain that formed a legend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Axl Rose, the frontmen of Guns N\u2019 Roses, had a tumultuous childhood that eventually helped create his persona.Born on February 6, 1962, as William Bruce Rose Jr., Axl\u2019s upbringing in his hometown of Lafayette, Indiana, has been everything but easy. Born to a teenage mom and a troubled 20-year-old father who was murdered in 1984, Axl grew up believing that his mother\u2019s new husband, Stephen L. Bailey, was his biological father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The household he was brought up in was a rather strict and religious one, and most of the things other children his age took for granted, such as music and TV, were labeled \u201cevil\u201d and forbidden.The family attended Pentecostal services several times a week, and Axl, who even taught Sunday school, later described the home as oppressive and fear-driven: \u201cEverything was evil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axl Rose, the frontmen of Guns N\u2019 Roses, had a tumultuous childhood that eventually helped create his persona.Born on February 6, 1962, as William Bruce Rose Jr.,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":324,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23417,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23415\/revisions\/23417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}