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Friday, 26 September 2008 18:49 |
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 GUNS N' ROSES Road Manager Del James has
announced that a new GN'R song will appear on the soundtrack for Body
Of Lies. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe, and is
scheduled to be released in the United States on October 10th reports Bravewords.
Earlier this week it was announced that Guns N' Roses' Appetite for
Destruction was certified on September 23th, 2008 by the RIAA
(Recording Industry Association of America) for US sales in excess of
18 million copies. The previous certification was for 15 million in
1998.
According to Wikipedia, Appetite For Destruction was released on
July 21, 1987. In the US, 'Welcome To The Jungle' (video below) was
issued as its first single with an accompanying music video. Initially,
the album and single lingered for almost a year without performing
well, but when Geffen Records founder David Geffen was asked to lend
support to the band, he obliged by personally convincing MTV executives
to play 'Welcome To The Jungle' during their after hours rotation. Even
though the video was initially only played one time at 4 a.m. on a
Sunday, rock and punk fans took notice and soon began requesting the
video and song en masse.
The album underwent an artwork change after the original Robert
Williams cover design (pictured - a surrealist scene in which a
dagger-toothed monster vengefully attacks a robot rapist) spawned
complaints from religious groups and caused some record stores to brown
bag, obscure, or refuse to sell the album. The revised cover was
gleaned from a tattoo that Axl Rose had recently commissioned featuring
skeleton faces of the five musicians arranged on a cross. Rose later
insisted that the Gold and Platinum plaques issued by the RIAA be set
using the original cover. The artwork from the original cover can be
found in the booklet of the CD release.
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