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GUNS N’ ROSES DEBUT RETURNS TO ‘BILLBOARD’ TOP 10 FOR FIRST TIME IN 29 YEARS
Guns N’ Roses‘ classic 1987 debut album, Appetite For Destruction, has returned to the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart after more than 29 years. The LP re-entered the chart at Number 10, following its reissue in a deluxe “Locked N’ Loaded” version on June 29th.
For tracking and charting purposes, all versions of Appetite For Destruction are combined. In the week ending July 5th, the album sold 33,000 equivalent units.
The deluxe edition of Appetite For Destruction contains 73 songs — including 49 tracks that never before been released — spread out across four CDs and seven 12-inch 180-gram vinyl LPs. A super deluxe version also includes a 96-page book with unreleased photos from Axl’s personal archive, new lithographs and a plethora of memorabilia.
Appetite For Destruction is one of the most successful albums in recording history, selling a reported 28 million copies worldwide since its original release.
Story Source: Billboard
TOM MORELLO DRAGS FORMER PRESIDENT OBAMA
Prophets Of Rage guitarist Tom Morello has accused former president Barack Obama of being a war criminal during his time in office. Morello aired his grievances after a Twitter account named Black and Proud tweeted, “We miss President Obama. We miss his class. We miss the dignity he brought to the White House.”
Morello responded, “I enjoy your twitter feed and welcome both class and dignity, however must say I don’t miss Obama’s war crimes and I mourn the civilian dead in the Mid East under his rule.”
Morello also criticized Obama in a 2012 Rolling Stone interview, admitting, “I drank a little bit of the Kool-Aid initially. It looked different than any other president, sounded different than any other president and then he acted the same as all the other presidents.”
While clearly on the left side of the political aisle, Morello has told us before that he’s not a fan of either major political party: [“I’ve always felt more much comfortable on the outside, lobbing musical Molotov cocktails over the barbed wire fence and, you know, I believe that both political parties are severely flawed, and neither one of them really represents the true needs of the vast majority of Americans.”] SOUNDCUE (:16 OC: . . . majority of Americans.)
Prophets Of Rage just released a new song called “Heart Afire” from the band’s upcoming second studio album.
Story Source: Alternative Nation
I enjoy your twitter feed and welcome both class and dignity,however must say I don’t miss Obama’s war crimes and I mourn the civilian dead in the Mid East under his rule. https://t.co/76tgoPbEv0
— Tom Morello (@tmorello) July 6, 2018