Axl Rose Makes First Guest Appearance on Song Since 2007
Axl Rose covers the UFO track “Love to Love” with the band’s former guitarist Michael Schenker. It’s his first studio visitor look on a non-Guns N’ Roses track since 2007.
The GN’R singer is considered one of a sequence of friends – together with bandmate Slash – who seems on My Years With UFO.
The LP finds Schenker revisiting the fabric he helped create with the British band within the ‘70s. It is available today; the track listing with guests can be seen below.
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Schenker recently revealed that Rose covered three songs for potential use, but eventually only approved one of the recordings.
“Axl ended up singing ‘Too Hot to Handle,’ ‘Only You Can Rock Me’ and ‘Love to Love,’” he defined. “I guess it was too many songs, because they were in the middle of a tour and he preferred to just focus on ‘Love to Love.’ And he is a perfectionist, I have noticed … we waited until he was ready and then finally he went, ‘Okay, “Love to Love” I approve. You can launch it.’”
You can hear “Love to Love” beneath.
Michael Schenker, “Love to Love” (UFO Cover ft. Axl Rose)
Instead, Schenker’s new model of “Only You Can Rock Me” options Joey Tempest and Roger Glover, whereas “Too Hot to Handle” options Joe Lynn Turner, Adrian Vandenberg and Carmine Appice. Slash performs on “Mother Mary” alongside Eric Gronwall.
Michael Schenker, My Years With UFO Track Listing
1. “Natural Thing: (feat. Dee Snider, Joel Hoekstra)
2. “Only You Can Rock Me” (Joey Tempest, Roger Glover)
3. “Doctor, Doctor” (Joe Lynn Turner, Carmine Appice)
4. “Mother Mary” (Slash, Erik Gronwall)
5. “This Kids” (Biff Byford)
6. “Love To Love” (Axl Rose)
7. “Lights Out” (Jeff Scott Soto, John Norum)
8. “Rock Bottom” (Kai Hansen)
9. “Too Hot To Handle” (Joe Lynn Turner, Adrian Vandenberg, Carmine Appice)
10. “Let It Roll” (Michael Voss)
11. “Shoot, Shoot” (Stephen Pearcy)
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Gallery Credit: Chad Childers