Michael Schenker, whose upcoming album of UFO songs features a rare new vocal from Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose, has revealed that Rose actually sang three songs during the recording sessions.
In an interview with the Appetite For Disortion podcast, Shenker reveals that when Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash recorded his contributions to the My Years With UFO album in Frankfurt – soloing on a version of the 1977 classic Mother Mary – he told producer Michael Voss that he’d talked to Rose about the project, and that the singer was keen to be part of it.
“I said to Slash, ‘That would be fantastic. Ask Axl which song he would like to do,'” says Schenker. “And so actually Axl ended up singing Too Hot To Handle, Only You Can Rock Me and Love To Love. But I think they also were on tour at the time, and so Axl was not actually happy with his performance on Only You Can Rock Me and Too Hot To Handle.
“And I guess it was too many songs, because they were in the middle of a tour, and he preferred to just focus on Love To Love. And he is a perfectionist, I have noticed, and so we waited until he was ready, and then finally he went, ‘Okay, Love To Love‘ I approve. You can release it. And that was it.”
