Slash: Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver & Rock's Snake PitPaperback, 1 January 2007

A human cartoon of hair, super-strength cigarettes and the rock world's most famous top hat, Slash is one of the most iconic guitarists in recent memory. Although born in Hampstead, this one-off guitarist came to prominence through the debauchery and stellar chart success of the American west coast's Guns N' Roses. His story is inevitably one of massive rock and roll excess, exhausting and famous live shows, fiery confrontations with other musicians but also of incredible discipline, a unique natural musical gift and, of course - through Sweet Child O' Mine and Paradise City to name but a few - the creation of some of rock music's most legendary songs.