Rose can’t stop ‘Hollywood Rose’

A federal judge has rejected a request by singer Axl Rose to stop an independent record label from releasing an album called “Hollywood Rose: The Roots of Guns N’ Roses.”

Cleopatra Records had purchased the rights to some recordings of Hollywood Rose, which included Axl Rose and Jeffrey “Izzy Stradlin” Isbell, who later formed Guns N’ Roses.

Hollywood Rose lasted for about nine months in the mid-1980s and recorded a demo tape. Former band member Chris Weber, whose parents paid for the demo, sold his rights to the recordings in November 2003 to Cleopatra Records.