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Axl Rose: From “Appetite for Destruction” to “Appetite for Bacon”

Guns ‘N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is so tubby he’s unrecognizable these days. The photo above is from a recent concert in Brazil, where’s he’s trying to hide the flab under a big yellow overcoat. He’s not the first musician from the late 80s/early 90s to put his bulk in a big yellow outfit:

Of course, Heavy D wasn’t trying to hide the fact that he was a husky gentleman.

For those of you too young to remember what Axl Rose looked like, here’s a photo from around the time of Appetite for Destruction:

Joey deVilla

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  • This seems a touch mean-spirited -- I'd have thought given your own recently chronicled fluctuations in weight (albeit in the other direction) you'd cut the guy some slack. Sometimes people put on the pounds when they get older...

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