GUNS N ROSES Appetite For Destruction LP + Knockin' on Heaven's Door 12" Vinyl
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Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction (Original Banned Cover) Vinyl LP (wx125) PLUS Guns N' Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's Door 12" vinyl single record (GFDT21)
Appetite for Destruction
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Appetite for Destruction (disambiguation). Appetite for Destruction Studio album by Guns N' Roses Released July 21, 1987 Recorded March–April 1987 Studio Rumbo Studios, Canoga Park, CA; Take One Studio, Burbank, CA; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA and Can Am Studio, Tarzana, CA Genre- Hard rock
- heavy metal
- hair metal
(1987) G N' R Lies
(1988) Singles from Appetite for Destruction
- "It's So Easy"
Released: June 15, 1987 - "Welcome to the Jungle"
Released: October 3, 1987 - "Sweet Child o' Mine"
Released: August 17, 1988 - "Paradise City"
Released: November 30, 1988 - "Nightrain"
Released: July 29, 1989
Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records to massive commercial success. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album as well as the 11th best-selling album in the United States. With about 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling records ever. Although critics were ambivalent toward the album when it was first released, Appetite for Destruction has since received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Artwork[edit]
The artwork originally planned for Appetite for DestructionThe album's originally planned cover art, based on Robert Williams' painting Appetite for Destruction, depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger. After several music retailers refused to stock the album, the label compromised and put the controversial cover art inside, replacing it with an image depicting a Celtic cross and skulls of the five band members with (designed by Billy White Jr., originally as a tattoo), each skull representing one member of the band: Izzy Stradlin, top skull; Steven Adler, left skull; Axl Rose, center skull; Duff McKagan, right skull; and Slash, bottom skull. In a 2016 interview, Billy White Jr. explained, "The cross and skulls that looked like the band was Axl’s idea, the rest was me. The knot work in the cross was a reference to Thin Lizzy, a band Axl and I both loved.”[9]
The photographs used for the back of the album and liner notes were taken by Robert John, Marc Canter, Jack Lue, Leonard McCardie, and Greg Freeman. The original cover was supposed to be on the 2008 vinyl reissue, though the record label replaced it with the "Skulls" art at the last minute.[10]
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