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The origin of this controversial Hard-Rock group can be traced back to Los Angeles in 1983 when childhood friends vocalist Axl Rose, born William Bruce Rose and guitarist Izzy Stradlin, born Jeff Isbell started their first band called Rose; two years later the pair hooked up with bassist Duff McKagan and re-named the band to Guns N' Roses, the group was completed by the addition of guitarist Slash, real name Saul Hudson and drummer Steve Adler.

The quintet began to perform live at underground L.A. clubs, releasing their first EP in 1986, which led to a contract with Geffen who eventually released their breakthrough album "Appetite For Destruction" one year later; it reached the #1 on The Billboard Top 200 chart on the strength of sensational single cuts such as The Billboard Hot 100 chart topper "Sweet Child O Mine"; both "Welcome To The Jungle" and "Paradise City", also stormed the same chart reaching respectively the #7 and the #5 spots.
In fall 1988 the band released the second album, "G N' R Lies", which quickly reached the #2 in U.S. Top 200 chart, its single, "Patience", climbed to #4 on Billboard Hot 100; in early 1989, Guns N' Roses, had two records simultaneously in the top 5 of The Billboard Top 200 list with over 20 million copies sold worldwide.
Around this time their career was littered with incidents involving drugs and alcohol abuse; Rose was also accused of racism and homophobia for "One In A Million" offensive lyrics.
During the recording sessions of the subsequent two albums, Adler was fired for alleged drug addiction and replaced by drummer Matt Sorum from The Cult, the band added Dizzy Reed on keyboards; eventually, in September 1991, "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II" were issued simultaneously; the two records went straight to the top 2 spots on The Billboard Top 200 chart; two singles preceded the release of the pair of albums: the #4 Active Rock anti-war song "Civil War" and the cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", which entered the top 20 in the same chart, followed a string of hit singles: "Don't Cry", "You Could Be Mine", "Live And Let Die", "Yesterdays" and one of the biggest rock ballad from the '80s, "November Rain" which peaked at #3 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Stradlin left the band by the fall of 1991, he was replaced by Gilby Clarke.
The cover collection, "The Spaghetti Incident", appeared two years later, despite all the singles missed the American Top 40, the set peaked at #4 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.
After this event followed a period of the band's uncertain future, in 1994 a new incarnation of the band covered The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" for the soundtrack to "Interview With The Vampire", the single became a top 10 hit on Mainstream Rock chart.
Slash officially left the band in 1995 and two years later, after the departure of McKagan, Axl Rose became the sole legal owner of the band-name; the revamped Guns N' Roses released a new single titled "Oh My God" in 1999, featured on the soundtrack of the movie "End Of Days".

Guns N' Roses' long awaited album, "Chinese Democracy", arguably the most anticipated LP in Rock history, will be included "IRS".

 

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Appetite For Destruction

(1987)

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City
7. My Michelle
8. Think About You
9. Sweet Child O' Mine
10. You're Crazy
11. Anything Goes
12. Rocket Queen

 

G N' R Lies

(1989)

1. Reckless Life
2. Nice Boys
3. Move To The City
4. Mama Kin
5. Patience
6. Used To Love Her
7. You're Crazy
8. One In A Million

 

Use Your Illusion I

(1991)

1. Right Next Door To Hell
2. Dust N' Bones
3. Live And Let Die
4. Don't Cry
5. Perfect Crime
6. You Ain't The First
7. Bad Obsession
8. Back Off Bitch
9. Double Talkin' Jive
10. November Rain
11. The Garden
12. Garden Of Eden
13. Don't Damn Me
14. Bad Apples
15. Dead Horse
16. Coma

 

Use Your Illusion II

(1991)

1. Civil War
2. 14 Years
3. Yesterdays
4. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
5. Get In The Ring
6. Shotgun Blues
7. Breakdown
8. Pretty Tied Up (The Perils Of Rock N' Roll Decadence)
9. Locomotive (Complicity)
10. So Fine
11. Estranged
12. You Could Be Mine
13. Don't Cry [alternative version]
14. My World

 

The Spaghetti Incident?

(1993)

1. Since I Don't Have You
2. New Rose
3. Down On The Farm
4. Human Being
5. Raw Power
6. Ain't It Fun
7. Buick Mackane (Big Dumb Sex)
8. Hair Of The Dog
9. Attitude
10. Black Leather
11. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
12. I Don't Care About You
13. Look At Your Game [hidden track]

 

Interview With The Vampire
[soundtrack]

(1995)

INCLUDES:

- Sympathy For The Devil

 

End Of Days
[soundtrack]

(1999)

INCLUDES:

- Oh My God

 

 

Chinese Democracy

(2006) ???

INCLUDES: IRS

 

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