Use Your Illusion I cover

Use Your Illusion I

Released

Rock critics crowned Guns n’ Roses as the Most Important Rock Band of the Moment when this double album of two separate CDs dropped in the summer of 1991. Singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash stood back-to-back like the Glimmer Twins when belting out Use Your Illusion hits like their nine-minute opus “November Rain” and an explosive cover of “Live and Let Die.” Use Your Illusion I and II stand as the realization of Guns n’ Roses’ greatest potential as a band, wearing Elton John, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan influences on their sleeves. By 1993, it was a wrap.

Miles Marshall Lewis

Recommended by

Suggestions
AM cover

AM

Arctic Monkeys
Misfits cover

Misfits

The Kinks
Texas Flood cover

Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Songs for the Deaf cover

Songs for the Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age
Celebration Day cover

Celebration Day

Led Zeppelin
Relentless cover

Relentless

Pretenders
Carry Fire cover

Carry Fire

Robert Plant
Live Bullet cover

Live Bullet

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Rides Again cover

Rides Again

James Gang