Take me down to the paradise city: Slash comes back home to Stoke

To rock fans worldwide he is Slash the living legend, with more than 100 million album sales, not to mention a hard-drinking, drug-abusing life with Guns N' Roses. Ask for him in Stoke-on-Trent, however, and you might find he's better known as Saul, the boy who lived with his gran until he left for Los Angeles. As the mainstay of the band Guns N' Roses, he enjoyed fame and fortune as one of the world's best-known guitarists. Now, for the first time, the prodigal son is coming home.

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