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Use Your Illusion II

Heavy metal
Heavy metal

Use Your Illusion II is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of Paul McCartney, U.K. Subs and Bob Dylan. Those roots explain a lot about how Use Your Illusion II arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Slash, Velvet Revolver, AC/DC, Poison and Kiss, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Use Your Illusion II, reaching back through Paul McCartney. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released by Geffen Records on September 17, 1991, the same day as its counterpart Use Your Illusion I. The supporting tour for the albums, the Use Your Illusion Tour, began in May 1991, four months before the release of the albums due to delays in getting the albums out. Bolstered by the lead single "You Could Be Mine", Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more popular of the two albums, selling a record 770,000 copies its first week and debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ahead of Use Your Illusion I's first-week sales of 685,000. As of 2010, Use Your Illusion II has sold 5,587,000 units in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for a single week.

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Use Your Illusion IIPaul McCartneyU.K. SubsBob DylanSlashVelvet RevolverAC/DCPoisonKissDef LeppardWhitesnakeTesla

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Use Your Illusion II grew out of Paul McCartney, U.K. Subs and Bob Dylan, shares an orbit with Slash, Velvet Revolver, AC/DC and Poison. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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