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Appearances Over Time
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Axl Rose's band, Hollywood Rose, and Tracy's band, the LA Guns.
Hence the name, Guns N' Roses.
And fact number two.
Guns N' Roses Genesis came after the success of their first album, Appetite for Destruction, which was released in 1987.
The success of this album did not come easy, with early sales extremely slow.
MTV refused to play the videos and radio stations refused airtime.
This changed when David Geffen called in a favour to MTV and asked them to play Welcome to the Jungle.
They eventually did, in the worst possible time slot of 4am in the morning on a weeknight, and the result was a switchboard that caught on fire due to the number of calls.
Appetite for Destruction went on to being the best-selling debut album of all time.
And fact number three.
With the success of their first album, came an appetite to eventually make the most expensive album, their fifth.
The album Chinese Democracy took a decade to produce and cost around $14 million.
And fact four.
In 1991, the band did the impossible and released two albums, Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2, at the same time.
Amazingly, both albums debuted at number two and one respectively on the Billboard charts and established Guns N' Roses as one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
And the last fact, fact number five.
Tragedy struck the band in Donington at the Monsters of Rock Festival in 1988.
While the band was playing, a record crowd of 107,000 surged forward in wet, boggy conditions and caused a crush.
Rose implored fans to back off, but unfortunately two fans were trampled or crushed to death.
Now on to the three question quiz.