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Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records.It initially received little mainstream attention, and it was not until the following year that Appetite for Destruction became a commercial success, after the band had toured and received significant airplay with the singles "Welcome to the Jungle ...
Guns N' Roses – Appetite for Destruction (1987) The album's original cover art, based on Robert Williams ' painting Appetite for Destruction , depicted an open-shirted woman leaning against a wooden fence after clearly being raped by a robotic rapist which is about to be crushed by a dagger-toothed monster.
Robert L. Williams, often styled Robt.Williams (born March 2, 1943), is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.Williams was one of the group of artists who produced Zap Comix, along with other underground cartoonists, such as Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, and Gilbert Shelton.
Guns N' Roses' debut album Appetite for Destruction was released July 21, 1987. [40] The album underwent an artwork change after the original cover design by Robert Williams, which depicted a surrealist scene in which a dagger-toothed monster vengefully attacks a robot rapist, was deemed too controversial.
The reworked cover art for the album with edited texts. The cover is a parody of tabloid newspapers, as are the liner notes. The album's cover art underwent several minor modifications when the title was released on CD, [9] though early pressings of the CD retain the original cover art. First, in the bottom left corner reading "LIES LIES LIES ...
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel met in elementary school in the '50s. ... 1987's "Appetite for Destruction," peaked at No. 1. ... Guitarist Neal Schon (left) is the only original member of Journey ...
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, released on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). In the United States, the song was released in June 1988 as the album's first single, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single.
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), says there's still a lot of "creative destruction" to come in the media industry, because of the growth of online media. "Out of the shreds of this ...