GUNS N' ROSES Manager - "Great Art Sometimes Takes Time"
October 22, 2008, 16 years ago
Entertainment Weekly is reporting:
The title track to GUNS N' ROSES ' Chinese Democracy hits radio today (see below), and with the album officially slated for release on November 23 (through an exclusive deal with retail giant Best Buy) comes the beginning of the end to a 15-year GNR drought. But at what cost to the band's label, Interscope?
Music industry veteran Matt Pinfield, a former MTV VJ and Columbia Records VP of A&R; who now hosts New York station WRXP's morning show, estimates the recording process alone easily ran in the millions. "I would imagine it's the most expensive rock record ever made," he says.
But according to GNR's current manager, Azoff's Andy Gould, you can't rush the magic of rock. "Art and commerce have always made strange bedfellows," Gould tells EW.com. "When they asked Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel, they didn't say, 'Can you do it in the fourth quarter?' so they can make their numbers. Great art sometimes takes time."
Read more here.
Guns N' Roses' single, 'Chinese Democracy', is currently streaming on BraveWords.com's KnuckleTracks Online Audio Player - head to the left-hand-side of BraveWords.com to launch the player.
Chinese Democracy, will see the light of day on November 23rd - a rare Sunday release date rather than the usual Tuesday in North America. In the US, Chinese Democracy will be exclusively available at Best Buy. BestBuy.com lists the following formats: CD (Cover A), CD (Cover B), Vinyl (Cover A), Vinyl (Cover B).
Universal Australia have scheduled Chinese Democracy for both physical and digital release on November 22nd.
Chinese Democracy will feature the following tracks: 'Chinese Democracy', 'Shackler's Revenge', 'Better', 'Street Of Dreams', 'If The World', 'There Was A Time', 'Catcher N' The Rye', 'Scraped', 'Riad N' The Bedovins', 'Sorry', 'I.R.S.', 'Madagascar', 'This I Love', 'Prostitute'.
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(Thanks Gnrdaily.com)
