GUNS N' ROSES Fans Protest Release Of 'Greatest Hits' Collection

February 17, 2004

A number of GUNS N' ROSES fans are protesting the decision by Universal Music to issue a GNR greatest hits album without, what they say is, the approval of the band's lead singer Axl Rose, according to Australia's Undercover News.

The irate fans have started an online petition via the GNR fan site Here Today… Gone To Hell!, claiming the album's projected track listing is simply not strong enough and that it contains no new material.

According to posts in the online forum discussing the release of the greatest hits package, fans also seem to be under the impression that Universal is responsible for holding up Axl's long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy", even though the label had the album publicly listed on their release schedule as far back as September 1999 and had to withdraw the release when Rose failed to deliver the master.

Read what the fans have to say about the release at this location.

As previously reported, GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" CD (view cover here) is scheduled for release in the U.S. on March 23 through Geffen Records.

"Greatest Hits", originally due last November before being pulled from the release schedule for reasons that were never clarified, will contain the following track listing:

01. Welcome To The Jungle
02. Live And Let Die
03. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
04. Sweet Child Of Mine
05. November Rain
06. Patience
07. Paradise City
08. Civil War
09. You Could Be Mine
10. Don't Cry (original)
11. Yesterdays
12. Ain't It Fun
13. Since I Don't Have You
14. Sympathy For The Devil

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