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

Fat Axl Rose in a big yellow raincoat, with the caption "Welcome to the jungle! We've got tons of cake!"

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:

Cover of the album "Big Tyme" by Heavy D and the Boyz, featuring Heavy D in a big yellow suit

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:

A much skinnier Axl Rose in black jeans and black tank top, sitting on the ground leaning against a wall

2 replies on “Axl Rose: From “Appetite for Destruction” to “Appetite for Bacon””

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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