Tag: Guns N’ Roses
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Rock’s Great “Lost” Albums of the Eighties #3: Sea Hags
Naming a band is a thorny problem. There must be plenty of bands whose fate was sealed the moment they gave themselves a name. Would The High Numbers done as well if they hadn’t become The Who? Would Kiss have become an arena-filling behemoth if they had stuck to Wicked Lester? But it doesn’t seem…
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The Week in Music: Olympic Closing Ceremony and New Guns n Roses Shows…
The Olympic closing ceremony displayed the very best of British music, fashion, and police crowd control techniques. Whilst Elbow performed “Open Arms” and “A Day Like This”, the Metropolitan Police Kettling Display Team (or PoKeDiT, as they are better known) showed how to effectively shackle and detain over five thousand of the World’s fittest youths…
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Guns n Roses at Donington ’88 – The Triumph and The Tragedy
The Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in 1988 was headlined by Iron Maiden, but Guns n Roses – and a tragedy – stole the headlines. Now known as The Download Festival, the annual pilgrimage of UK Heavy Metal fans to a field outside Nottingham (Castle Donington) is as essential a rite de passage for every…
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Guns n Roses at The Marquee Club
I have very few regrets in life…. Perhaps I should have danced with that pretty brunette at the school disco when I was ten years old instead of looking horrified. On reflection I didn’t take enough care when using that scalpel when twelve, resulting in an unscheduled trip to A&E. As a teenager that haircut…
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