Guns N' Roses
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Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses performing at Taipei Stadium 2009. From left to right: Frank Ferrer, Dizzy Reed, Bumblefoot, Axl Rose, DJ Ashba, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus & Tommy Stinson
Background information
Origin Los Angeles, California, USA
Genres Hard rock, heavy metal[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Years active 1985–present
Labels Geffen, UZI Suicide
Associated acts Hollywood Rose, L.A. Guns, Slash's Snakepit, Velvet Revolver
Website www.gunsnroses.com
Members
Axl Rose
Dizzy Reed
Tommy Stinson
Chris Pitman
Richard Fortus
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
Frank Ferrer
DJ Ashba
Former members
see List of Guns N' Roses band members
Guns N' Roses (sometimes abbreviated as GNR) is an American rock band. The band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since its formation; the current lineup comprises vocalist Rose, guitarists Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, DJ Ashba and Richard Fortus, bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs and one live album during its career.
The band has sold an estimated 100 million albums worldwide,[7][8] including over 46 million in the United States.[9] The band's 1987 major label debut album Appetite for Destruction has sold in excess of 28 million copies worldwide and reached number one on the United States Billboard 200. In addition, the album charted three Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Sweet Child o' Mine" which reached number one.[10] The 1991 albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II debuted on the two highest spots on the Billboard 200 and have sold a combined 14 million copies in the United States alone and 35 million worldwide. After over a decade of work, the band released their follow-up album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008.
Their mid-to-late eighties and early nineties years have been described by individuals in the music industry as the period in which "they brought forth a hedonistic rebelliousness and revived the punk attitude-driven hard rock scene, reminiscent of the early Rolling Stones."[11]
