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Use Your Illusion II

Use Your Illusion II cover

Use Your Illusion II

Produced by Mike Clink and Guns N' Roses

Engineered by Mike Clink

Mixed by Bill Price in (ou)R Sound

Additional engineering: Jim Mitchell

Assistant Engineers: Ed Goodreau, John Aguto, Mike Douglass, Allen Abrahamson, Buzz Burrowes, Chris Puram, Leon Ganado, Jason Roberts, Talley Sherwood, Craig Portelis, L Stu Young

Recorded at: A&M Studios, Record Plant, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios, Metalworks Recording Studios

Mixed at Skip Saylor Recording

Cover painting: Mark Kostabi

Released:
September 16 & 17, 1991

Facts:

  • "Use Your Illusion I & II" were released simultaneously. They marked the first time a major contemporary rock artist had released two separate albums on the same day.
  • Many of the songs were written before the band recorded "Appetite For Destruction".
  • The band thought of calling the album GN'R Sucks or BUY Product.
  • UK chart peak #1.
  • US chart peak #1.
  • Includes the US Top 40 single "You Could Be Mine" (#29).
  • Grammy nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance.

    Lyrics / Track info:

    Civil War

  • 14 Years

    Yesterdays

    Knockin' On Heaven's Door

    Get In The Ring

    Shotgun Blues

    Breakdown

    Pretty Tied Up (The Perils Of Rock N' Roll Decadence)

    Locomotive (Complicity)

    So Fine

    Estranged

    You Could Be Mine

    Don't Cry (Alt. Lyrics)

    My World