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Legendary Guns N’ Roses guitarist Saul Hudson, better known as Slash, was dunked into rock ‘n’ roll from a young age. He was born in Stoke on Trent, England, to parents who were heavily involved in the world of music. His mother, Ola J. Hudson, was a popular African-American fashion designer whose clients included Ringo Starr, Janis Joplin and David Bowie (whom she also dated briefly). Slash’s father is a white English artist who created album artwork for musicians including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

Slash grew up in an environment where he was submerged in 1960s and ’70s rock. As he once recalled, “my dad especially raised me on British rock music – y’know; The Kinks, Cream, The Yardbirds, The Stones and The Beatles.”

When Slash was about five years old, he and his father moved to LA to join his mother, who had moved there a couple of years prior. It was at this point that he became more acquainted with the music of the American rock giants. When asked about his first exposure to Jimi Hendrix in a 2011 interview, Slash recalled, “I actually didn’t become conscious of Jimi [Hendrix] really until I moved to LA and all of a sudden it was Hendrix and The Doors and The Mamas and the Papas, Starship – that whole thing that was going on, and Jimi was just, y’know, he was exciting. He was the embodiment of that wild electric guitarist.”

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