Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II Paperback / softback
by Eric Weisbard
Part of the 33 1/3 series
Paperback / softback
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It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas.
Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time.
But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of all was Guns N' Roses.
Their albums "Use Your Illusion I & II", released on the same day, were both 75-minute sprawlers with practically the same cover design - an act of colossal arrogance.
On one level, it worked. The albums claimed the top two chart positions and ultimately sold 7 million copies each in the US alone.
On another level, it was a disaster. This was an album that Axl Rose has been unable to follow-up in fifteen years.
It signalled the end of "Guns N' Roses", of heavy metal on the Sunset Strip and the entire 1980s model of blockbuster pop/rock promotion. "Use Your Illusion" marked the end of rock as mass culture. In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:21/02/2007
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- ISBN:9780826419248
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:21/02/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780826419248