Best Sellers From The ’90′s: Guns N’ Roses’ “Use Your Illusion I and II”

Guns N' Roses - "Use Your Illusion I" (Geffen, 1991)

After rocketing onto the rock-and-roll scene with their gorgeously-bluesy Appetite for Destruction, Guns N’ Roses took three years to release their million-selling duo of sophomore records, Use Your Illusion I and II.

The job of recording their sophomore set was a path fraught with peril for Guns N’ Roses. Steven Adler was fired as the band’s drummer during the album’s 36 month gestation period. The band’s left turn from melodic riff-laden rock and roll to a sound that was heavy on ballads and strings clearly didn’t please guitarist Izzy Stradlin, who left a few months after the album was released.

It hardly seemed to matter to GNR fans, though, as they scooped up the pair of records to the tune of a simultaneous #1/#2 debuts on the album chart. Since that time, more than 7 million copies have been pushed out the door.

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