Report: Fans' Appetite For New GUNS N' ROSES Album Is Undiminished
December 13, 2006Neil Shah of Reuters reports:
Axl Rose's fans are hoping for a miracle this Christmas — the release of "Chinese Democracy", the first album of original GUNS N' ROSES music in 15 years.
Rose, 44, the only original member of the combustible rock group, vaguely told MTV in late August that the album would hit store shelves "this year," 12 years after work started. The band is currently on a U.S. tour, its first since 2002, but the album still has no official release date.
With only a few weeks left in 2006, most GUNS N' ROSES fans now believe the only music they will hear on Christmas morning will be "Silent Night". During a sold-out performance at New York City's Madison Square Garden last month, Rose was mum about the album, which has cost roughly $13 million to make, according to a New York Times story in March 2005.
"Believing 'Chinese Democracy' is coming out this year is the same as believing in Santa Claus," said a fan on the popular HereTodayGoneToHell Web site earlier this month.
Rose's manager, Merck Mercuriadis, who further stoked fan anticipation in early October when he told Rolling Stone magazine that fans "might walk into (their) record shop one Tuesday and find it there," declined to comment for this article. Interscope Records, the band's label, referred inquiries to Mercuriadis. (Albums usually go on sale on Tuesdays in the United States, a day earlier elsewhere.)
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