Description
Guns N' Roses shortened the extensive Use Your Illusion project and split it into two albums.
Related events
- Guns N' Roses reached No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with their debut album “Appetite for Destruction” after 57 weeks on the chart. At the time it reached the top, more than 5 million copies had been sold, and the singles “Sweet Child O' Mine,” “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City” all reached the U.S. Top 10. Worldwide sales of the album later exceeded 28 million copies.
- Two fans died during Guns N' Roses' performance at the Monsters of Rock festival in Castle Donington, England. Singer Axl Rose had previously urged the crowd not to kill one another. Because of the wet surface and a record attendance of 107,000 people, a crowd surge occurred during the performance and two fans were trampled or crushed to death.
- Guns N' Roses debuted at the top two positions of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart. Use Your Illusion II was No. 1 and Use Your Illusion I was No. 2. Use Your Illusion II began a two-week run at No. 1; it was released on September 17, 1991, together with Use Your Illusion I and had sold 5,587,000 copies in the United States by 2010.
- Former Guns N' Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan sued singer Axl Rose over claims that he had taken exclusive control of the band's copyrights. They claimed that Rose was no longer willing to recognize the contributions of his former bandmates.