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Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

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It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of all was Guns N' Roses. Their albums "Use Your Illusion I & II", released on the same day, were both 75-minute sprawlers with practically the same cover design - an act of colossal arrogance. On one level, it worked. The albums claimed the top two chart positions and ultimately sold 7 million copies each in the US alone. On another level, it was a disaster. This was an album that Axl Rose has been unable to follow-up in fifteen years. It signalled the end of "Guns N' Roses", of heavy metal on the Sunset Strip and the entire 1980s model of blockbuster pop/rock promotion. "Use Your Illusion" marked the end of rock as mass culture. In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.

Artikel.nr.

24a46e03-9194-4238-8485-a3cd46a9000d

Egenskaper

Språkversion

Engelska

Bokomslagstyp

Pocket

Antal sidor

136 sidor

Föreslagen målgrupp

Alla

Skrivet av

Eric Weisbard

Utgivare

Continuum

Tryckt i

London, UK

Släpp datum

21/02/2007

Publiceringsår

2007

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

9780826419248

Minsta orderkvantitet

1 styck

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II

162 kr

162 kr

Tidigare lägsta pris:

210 kr

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Tor, 9 jan - tis, 14 jan


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