High Life : A WEEKLY FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Even as an eighth-grader, Axl Rose expected to be famous someday, and it got him in trouble, a former cross-country coach in Lafayette, Ind., recalls of the Guns N’ Roses singer.
Rose was still the obscure child William B. Bailey (a little bit of trivia) when cross-country teammates taped his mouth shut because of his incessant talk of future success, Coach Phil Hurt recently told the Associated Press.
Rose’s fifth-grade teacher, Bill Johnson, recalled that Bailey was “very intelligent, very personable, always had a smile.”
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