'The Walking Dead': Guns N' Roses' Slash says song he wrote for the show was rejected

The musician says the team behind the show didn't want any 'recognisable' names attached to it

Even Slash, the acclaimed lead guitarist of the Guns N' Roses, gets rejected sometimes.

The musician has revealed that he once wrote a song hoping it would appear on The Walking Dead – to no avail.

Fans can hear the tune on Living the Dream, the Slash album featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, which came out in September this year.

The song eventually turned into The One You Loved Is Gone, the eighth track on the record – but when Slash started writing it, he had the zombie show in mind.

“I wrote the intro for The Walking Dead," he told the Basel Meets podcast.

"Because at that time, The Walking Dead didn’t really have any other music outside of its score music and so I was trying to push them to play an original song on there but they wouldn’t go for it."

According to Slash, at that time, the team behind the show didn't want to have any "recognizable existing names" – such as his – "as part of the Walking Dead world".

"And so it never happened," Slash added. "But it was always a good musical idea and I introduced it to Myles to see if he would come up with something to see if we could create a song for The Walking Dead."

By the time they recorded the song earlier this year, the musician explained, the tune's lyrics had become something "completely different".

Living the Dream is the latest album released by Slash.

It follows up after World on Fire, for which he also collaborated with Kennedy and The Conspirators.

The Walking Dead is currently in its ninth season.

The mid-season finale aired in November, and the second half is set to air in February on AMC and FOX.

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