Axl Rose, of Guns N Roses, performs at the John Vavatos & L’Uomo Vogue Fashion Week party, the start of his 3-week bender in New York City. Bennett Raglin/WireImage.com
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Axl Rose even has a cocktail — vodka, cranberry juice and champagne, named after him at hip NYC lounge Greenhouse — where he’s known to stay up partying past 8 a.m. Bennett Raglin/WireImage.com
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For the last three weeks, the singer has been on an epic bender in New York, tearing through the city’s nightclubs and bars like he’s still the stick-thin 25-year-old who became a worldwide phenomenon after the release of his album “Appetite for Destruction.” Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.co
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Since he arrived in the city for his Fashion Week concert on Feb. 11, he’s gone out nearly every night (and continued on till the morning), usually crashing afterward at his $1,550-a-night suite in the Essex House Hotel. His assault on New York night life has made him a one-man stimulus package during the scene’s winter doldrums — and the city’s nocturnes are thrilled. Getty Images for for Shadow Publ
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“It’s like he’s teaching the next generation how it’s done,” said one source who has joined Rose on at least half a dozen of his jaunts, where Kings of Leon singer Caleb Followill has also been spotted. “Who’s a bigger rock star than Axl Rose?” Getty Images for for Shadow Publ
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Though Rose, who lives on the West Coast, has been in New York on and off in the last couple years, night-life insiders say he hasn’t hit the town this hard since 2006. Getty Images for for Shadow Publ
