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| Known for: |
Private Parts, Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I, Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II |
| Birth name: |
Saul Hudson |
| Birthday: |
23 July 1965,
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Height: |
5' 10½" (1.79 m) |
Trivia

Guitarist for the heavy-metal band Guns 'n' Roses

Left Guns N'Roses in 1996 after numerous failed attempts at co-existing with longtime bandmate W. Axl Rose.

Created controversy after giving a profanity-laden acceptance speech at the American Music Awards on January 22, 1990.

Has not spoken to former bandmate
W. Axl Rose since 1996. They communicated their song selection for the 1999 Guns N Roses live album "Live Era" only through intermediaries.

Released two albums with his new band, Slash's Snakepit.

Attended middle and high school with longtime Guns N Roses bandmate Steven Adler.

Before Guns N Roses, was in a band called Road Crew with future GNR bandmates Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.

Wife Perla gave birth to a 9 lbs 4 oz baby boy, London Emilio Hudson, on August 28, 2002, and to an 8 lbs 13 oz baby boy, Cash Anthony Hudson, on June 23, 2004.

Voted the West Midlands' best guitarist in Total Guitar Magazine's poll of the greatest British guitarists. [July 2001]

Auditioned for the heavy metal band Poison

On the show "Kid Notorious", he plays himself, the voice of reason, next door neighbor and good friend of Robert Evans (Kid Notorious). In real life, he actually is the next door neighbor and good friend of Robert Evans (although he says he is hardly the voice of reason in real life).

His pulse once stopped after a drug overdose at a hotel. Doctors were able to revive him with a shot of adrenaline into his chest.

His favorite book is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

His father is Anthony Hudson, album cover designer for Geffen Records, including Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark.

Mother is clothing designer Ola Hudson. Her work includes costumes for David Bowie in "The man who fell to earth" and the Pointer Sisters.

Attended the same high school as Lenny Kravitz

Of African-American and British descent

Velvet Revolver was named the name of Velvet Underground and their feelings that they were at a point where they were revolving around the world as opposed to the world revolving around them.

Has recorded with British heavy metal band Motorhead, American singer and longtime friend Lenny Kravitz and Michael Jackson.
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