Use Your Illusion album series

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The Use Your Illusion album series is a pair of simultaneously released 1991 studio albums by Guns N’ Roses that marked the band’s ambitious expansion into more diverse and elaborate hard rock.

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Use Your Illusion album series canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf album series
music release
artist Guns N' Roses
containsCover Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Live and Let Die
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
distributionFormat cassette tape
compact disc
vinyl record
era early 1990s rock
featuresMember Axl Rose NERFINISHED
Dizzy Reed
Duff McKagan NERFINISHED
Izzy Stradlin NERFINISHED
Matt Sorum
Slash NERFINISHED
followedBy "The Spaghetti Incident?"
genre arena rock
blues rock
hard rock
heavy metal
hasPart Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion II
hasType double album project
notableFor expanding Guns N' Roses' sound beyond straightforward hard rock
incorporating orchestration and piano-driven ballads
simultaneous release of two full-length studio albums
notableSong Civil War
Don’t Cry
surface form: Don't Cry

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
November Rain
You Could Be Mine
originalLanguage English
precededBy Appetite for Destruction
G N' R Lies
producer Guns N' Roses
Mike Clink
recordedIn A&M Studios
surface form: A&M Studios, Hollywood

Conway Studios, Los Angeles
Image Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Metalworks Studios, Mississauga
Record Plant, Los Angeles
surface form: Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles

Studio 56, Los Angeles
recordLabel Geffen Records
releaseDate 1991-09-17

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Use Your Illusion I partOf Use Your Illusion album series