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"It's So Easy" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, appearing on their 1987 debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction. The song was released as the band's first single on June 8, 1987, in the UK , where it reached number 84 on the UK Singles Chart [ 2 ] as a double A-Side with " Mr. Brownstone ".
The now all-female group chose the name of Fontaine from a French-Canadian great-grandmother. [5] They cut two singles for Musicraft Records in 1946, and then worked on sustaining (non-sponsored) programs for NBC, meeting and working with Perry Como soon after he came to the network.
Released in January, this album sold over 300,000 copies in its first month [1] and went gold by May 1968. [2] This was the tenth debut album to top the Billboard 200, [3] and stayed on the top spot from March 16 to April 13.
Linda Ronstadt recorded "It's So Easy" in 1977 for her album Simple Dreams, produced by Peter Asher. Her recording was released as a single by Asylum Records in the autumn of that year. It hit the Billboard Top Five on the Hot 100 simultaneously with her recording of "Blue Bayou". It also reached No. 9 in Canada and No. 11 on the UK Singles Chart.
In 1984, Fontaine was convicted in a murder-for-hire case. According to police documents, in 1983, he approached a country singer with the promise of a recording contract with RCA and a large sum of money if the man were to kill his estranged wife, with whom he was engaged in a custody battle. He was sentenced to four years in a California prison.
Fontaine continued to reside in his home state of Massachusetts, and appeared in nightclubs and on television. During the late 1960s and into the '70s, he toured children's hospitals to spread cheer among juvenile patients. Children had always enjoyed seeing Crazy on television, so Fontaine visited the bedridden children in full costume as Crazy.
It's So Easy may refer to: "It's So Easy" (Guns N' Roses song), 1987 "It's So Easy!" (The Crickets song), 1958, with a cover version by Linda Ronstadt in 1977 "It's So Easy" (Andy Williams song), 1970 "It's So Easy", a song by Hawkwind from their 1974 album Hall of the Mountain Grill "It's So Easy", a song by Olivia Newton-John from Have You ...
Charles Percier. Portrait by Robert Lefèvre (1807). Charles Percier ([ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.