Watch Axl Rose Morph Into Keith Lemon

The original Guns N’ Roses line-up is reforming at Coachella this year and everyone is – quite rightly – losing their shit at the prospect of seeing unpredictable frontman Axl Rose patch it up with legendary guitarist Slash. But there’s also another question on our minds. When, exactly, did Axl start looking like Keith Lemon, the comic persona of British comedian Leigh Francis? We investigate…

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It really is like magic, eh?

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October 1985: Those shades have a bit of a Lemony vibe about them but this is still very much vintage Axl.

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April 1992: Ooosh! Here we see Axl performing at a Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. The ‘tache is forming and Keith Lemon wore a jacket to the 2012 Brit Awards that bore disturbing similarities to this one.

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February 2010: Fearne Cotton is just out of shot and Axl is about to make some lame gag about the size of her nostrils or something.

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