Some publicity would definitely help. It's kind of wild that Axl hasn't done a US chat show like Kimmel since 2012, and the last sit-down interview he had was in 2016 with some guy who basically lucked out backstage when he was supposed to be interviewing Duff on his own, IIRC.

Slash and Duff have been restricted to promoting their own solo material and dancing around GN'R, I think the only member of the band who's done interviews with high-profile outlets is Melissa with Cosmo and Rolling Stone.

It's bonkers. Get Axl to sit down with a couple of friendly journalists from Rolling Stone or GQ or whatever, and do a round of sympathetic talk shows; Kimmel would crawl over broken glass for him, I'm sure.

I just want them to have some fun in the studio rather than just tinkering with 20-year-old demos. It baffles me that – as far as we can tell – they haven't got together in a studio to jam out some new tracks.

I mean... that is the case for multiple GN'R songs.

Your prejudice against pop acts is showing. I don't even particularly like pop, but I recognise that pop songwriters are every bit as skilled as rock ones, they just work in a different genre.

And the cult of the songwriter-as-artist being venerated over the performer who sings a song written by someone else doesn't have any noble origin – it is a direct result of McCartney and Lennon working out that they got twice as much money on a song for which they had a songwriting credit.

Yeah, it's actually more like "the 15-year-old metalheads sneering at the glee club drama geek while mistaking her for the popular girls..."

Yeah, God forbid that the members of GN'R should spend some of their downtime between tours doing guest spots of their most famous songs with pop acts.