Guns N’ Roses were last in Australia in 2010 but haven’t played to Melbourne audiences since 2007.
Guns N’ Roses are Axl Rose, DJ Ashba (guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Tommy Stinson (bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal (guitar), Chris Pitman (keyboards) and Frank Ferrrer (drums).
Their 1987 debut album,
Appetite For Destruction, reached number one on the US Billboard chart and has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. In Australia they reached the top of the ARIA album charts in 1991 with
Use Your Illusion II and in 1993 with
The Spaghetti Incident, a collection of punk and new-wave covers. The band’s most recent release,
Chinese Democracy, was released in 2008 and debuted at number one in 13 countries.
In April 2012, Guns N’ Roses were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Completing the hard-rocking line-up are fellow US chart-toppers and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
ZZ Top and revered ARIA Hall of Fame inductees
Rose Tattoo.