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...would have thought that under the hard business exterior of mega-investor Warren Buffett lies the soul of a wannabe rocker? A surreal video making its way around the Net shows Buffett doing his best imitation of Guns N' Roses rocker Axl Rose, complete with waist-length hair, a purple bandanna, a black leather jacket and Axl's signature red plaid kilt from the '80s - all as part of an eye-catching video for Geico, the auto-insurance company owned by Berkshire Hathaway. And Buffett sings too. O.K., he attempts to sing. (See the best Super Bowl commercials...
...Buffett who steals the show, as shots of the billionaire investor singing and swaying à la Axl Rose from a spotlight-illuminated stage are juxtaposed throughout the 2-min. 24-sec. video. His grand finale comes in the final 30 seconds when he stretches out his tattoo-laden arm to an unseen audience and croons into the mike, "You bring out the best in me / You can always turn to me ... / We're always true to you / We'll do it all for you ..." (See 10 big recession surprises...
...Beyond sweat, inspiration sells too. When legendary rocker Axl Rose told the world that his epic Guns N' Roses music video "November Rain" was inspired by a short story he read by a little-known writer named Del James in 1995, sales of the book,"The Language of Fear," took off. When the book went out of print two years later, it became a rock collector's must-have, with copies of the $5.50 book fetching between $150 and $400 on eBay for years. Last year, the publisher decided to re-release the book with a new cover...
...Rose, Axl •17-years-in-the making album of plummets on chart after one week...
...Palin, they’re the sounds of home. Welcome back, Sarah. Someone tell her to get some braids and she may have a shot next year. 1. “Chinese Democracy”—17 years and $13 million in the making, Axl Rose’s white whale should have been at least one of the horsemen of the apocalypse. What we expected were the sounds of angels giving birth to devils and devouring one another. What we expected were the sounds of the Aztec city that, after all these years, we were certain...