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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 ...
The song is about a friend of the band, a girl named Michelle Young who is thanked in the Appetite for Destruction cover sleeve. Slash knew Young throughout junior high, as she was a friend of Slash's first girlfriend. [2]
The follow-up to Straight Outta Compton, Niggaz4Life (commonly known as Efil4zaggin), [4] was released the following year, supported by the singles "Appetite for Destruction" and "Alwayz into Somethin'". [6] Dre left the group shortly after the album's release, and began a feud with fellow member Eazy-E, who later died in 1995. [4]
The band's current lineup consists of namesake and drummer Steven Adler, vocalist Ari Kamin, guitarists Michael Thomas and Alistair James, and bassist Todd Kerns. Along with original material, the band performs covers of Adler's former band Guns N' Roses, primarily songs from the album Appetite for Destruction.
The Use Your Illusion albums represent a turning point in the sound of Guns N' Roses. Although the band did not abandon the aggressive hard-rock sound it had become known for with 1987's Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion I demonstrated a more diverse sound, incorporating elements of blues, classical music, heavy metal, punk rock, and classic rock and roll.
Use Your Illusion I featured several songs pre-Appetite for Destruction while Use Your Illusion II featured more tracks written during and after Appetite for Destruction. The band's cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" had been released almost a year earlier on the Days of Thunder soundtrack, while "Civil War" debuted at the 1990 Farm Aid concert
"Paradise City" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). Released as a single in January 1989, it is the only song on the album to feature a synthesizer.
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 ...