Phil lewis la guns biography

  • phil lewis la guns biography

    • “If Pavarotti had come along and offered to sing Sex Action, I’d have probably said, ‘Yeah, you’re in’”: the wild tale of LA Guns, Hollywood’s most chaotic band

    Formed by original Guns N’ Roses guitarist Tracii Guns, LA Guns were there at the beginning of the Sunset Strip glam metal scene. But decades of line-up changes and chaos meant they never matched their more successful peers. But in 2017, Guns and former singer Phil Lewis patched up their differences for the acclaimed The Missing Peace album. This is the story of how one of hard rock’s most infamous Cold Wars thawed.

    If you’d called a psychic telephone hotline in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, there’s a chance you might have heard Phil Lewis on the other end. The British-born singer was on one of his periodic stints out of L.A. Guns, the band he had joined a decade or so earlier after relocating to California, when a friend asked if he fancied maki