No 'Democracy' for China
Updated on 24 November 2008
Guns N' Roses fans in China will have to go underground to get their hands on a copy of the band's first album in 17 years.
Their much anticipated album, Chinese Democracy, was released worldwide on Sunday but the group's record label isn't banking on any sales in mainland China.
Geffen Records said in a statement: "It is unlikely we will be approved to release the album in mainland China."
In the album's title track, singer Axl Rose addresses China's communist leadership saying followers of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement have "seen the end and you can't hold on now."
Chinese Democracy, has been ten years in the making with Rose going through a revolving cast of musicians before the project's completion.
The last collection of new Guns N' Roses material came out in September 1991, when the group released a pair of albums, Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2, the follow-ups to Appetite for Destruction in 1987.
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