Axl Rose Pleads Chivalry in Biting Incident

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Axl Rose released a statement in which he addresses the biting incident that landed him in jail in Sweden two days ago. "We had a great gig in Stockholm and I am not going to let this incident spoil that," Rose said in the statement. "My assistant Beta and I were talking in the lobby of the hotel when security started to give us a hard time. My only concern was to make sure she was OK." The takeaway: Cads withdraw meekly; gentleman bite.

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“Karma Chameleon”

Culture Club | 1983

Boy George has said this song was about standing by what you believe in. However, at the time, he was involved in a secret affair with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss. "Now people can understand the songs better," he said. "They were written about my relationship with Jon, and they were also written about being a gay man in a homophobic world." The lines "If I listen to your lies, would you say/I'm a man without conviction/I'm a man who doesn't know how to sell a contradiction," described his life at the time, he said. "I was selling this big lie."

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