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Guns N’ Roses or also known as GNR is a famous band formed in 1985 which known for its hard rock. The first label that they have signed a contract with was Geffen Production and the band was made up of 5 people: Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Slash, Duff McKagan, and Steven Adler. 

 

Though after years the band members have changed multiple times and now the current lineup for the band is Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Dizzy Reed, Melissa Reese, guitarist Richard Fortus and drummer Frank Ferrer. 

Guns N’ Roses have formed originally from the merging of members from two bands: Hollywood Roses and L.A. Guns which have merged together and have formed what we know now today as Gun N’ Roses. Though there were other suggestions for the names like AIDS or Heads of Amazon. At the start of their career Guns N’ Roses have released a four-song EP: Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, Rose Tattoo's "Nice Boys" and Aerosmith's "Mama Kin".  

Guns N ’Roses’ 1987 debut album was Appetite for Destruction. As the band was still relatively unknown to the general public, the album did not gain the popularity that its members had hoped for, but the following year, thanks to luck and hard work, "Appetite for Destruction" became a real hit in the United States and later abroad. The best hits of this album were "Sweet Child o 'Mine", "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" and some other songs. 

Then came the 2nd album which Guns N’ Roses have produced called ‘’G N’ R Lies’’ which was released in 1988. It included the recordings from their previous songs in the album “EP Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide” as well as four new acoustic tracks. In 1990 Guns N’ Roses returned to the studio after their long period of not being there. At the time Adler was fired for drug use, but he later joined after signing a contract where he stated that he would stop using drugs. Alder kept his word, but the fight against drugs was not easy. This often left its mark in both performances and music videos. However, as a result of his drug addiction, he was fired from the group in 1990. This process was quite scandalous, as all his writing credits and other royalties had to go to the band. It all ended with a lawsuit where he managed to receive financial compensation in the amount of 2,250,000 million dollars and in addition 15% of income from songs in which he was directly involved. 

Eventually, the band released the recordings in new albums: ‘’Use Your Illusion I’’ and ‘’Use Your Illusion II’’ in 1991. 

Before the release of the albums, the band went on a huge tour that featured 27 countries. The tour itself is now considered to be ‘’The longest rock tour in history’’ but this tour would also be remembered as one of the quite controversial one due to the number of incidents that would happen on the shows during the tour. 

One such incident occurred when a fan began filming a concert (which was forbidden). The guards reacted too slowly to this, so Axl Rose decided to go down to him himself and resolve the issue. Of course, their conversation could not be called calm, and in a heated argument, Axl began to turn to personal insults. The inaction of security and some other factors led to the fact that Rose decided to just leave the concert. Of course, people who paid for the concert did not like it, which resulted in fights and riots. Dozens of people were injured in the incident. 

There were charges pressed against Rose but the police were unable to catch him as he has to go on another tour overseas. But later a judge deemed Rose not guilty and said that he didn’t cause or indirectly caused a riot. Later another riot got caused in the city of Montreal but it was mostly due to technical difficulties and mess-ups so it was not directly caused by Guns N’ Roses.  

Next, the band has recorded their fifth album called the ‘’Spaghetti Incident’’ and one could wonder how they came up with a name like that. Well basically one’s when they were staying in an apartment Adler when he still used to be part of the band used to store his drugs in a refrigerator and his stash safe word was Spaghetti. Eventually, when they were in court, the lawyer asked them to tell him about the ‘’Spaghetti Incident’’. Of course, the band humorously appreciated this wording and decided to use it for their new album. 

Later the band got reformed by Rose and he has reformed the band itself under a new label after gaining all the rights to the name Guns N’ Roses. A couple of years ahead the band has gone through a bunch of reformations in terms of the band’s members some have been fired and replaced and the band continued doing tours and releasing new albums. Some of the members of the band even went as far as getting inducted into the hall of fame of rock and roll. Those members were Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, Dizzy Reed, Slash, Matt Sorum, Steven Adler, Izzy Stradlin. 

Overall the current day things the band is busy with or at least they did is they remastered the Appetite for Destruction while the current future for Guns N’ Roses, their new planned albums, and planned tours. 

As well known Guns N’ Roses had quite the way throughout their career going to current day where they still are doing good I am going to list the lineups for the changes in the band over the years in terms of members. 

The band has gone through an incredible amount of changes in terms of members over the years and eventually got reunited together to a degree.