Will Older GUNS N' ROSES Fans Buy A New Album From The Group?

April 6, 2004

The charts editor for Billboard magazine has spoken to Newsday about the impressive chart debut of GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" — a collection of previously released songs from a band whose last studio collection, "The Spaghetti Incident?", came out more than a decade ago.

As previously reported, singer Axl Rose and fellow original members Slash and Duff McKagan argued in a lawsuit that the company was putting out the album without their input. Geffen officials countered that they wouldn't have released the album if Rose had delivered the long-promised album "Chinese Democracy", which has been in the works for seven years.

"Patching up their differences only long enough to try to stop this album from coming out may just have served to draw more attention to it and may have helped market it," the editor, Geoff Mayfield, told Newsday.

"To a degree, they'll have to start over with the group," Mayfield added of prospects for a comeback. "There would be some people — Axl faithful — who would buy (a new studio album) on faith, but I think it's been a long time. Older fans of the band may have moved on to other stuff." [Read more]

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