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you’re keeping in step
in the line
got your chin held high and you feel just fine
because you do
what you’re told
but inside your heart it is black and it’s hollow and it’s cold

just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?

what if this whole crusade’s
a charade
and behind it all there’s a price to be paid
for the blood
on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine

just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?

so naïve
to keep holding on to what I want to believe
i can see
but i keep holding on and on and on and on

will you bite the hand that feeds you?
will you stay down on your knees?

Chinese Democracy has finally arrived. One of the most highly anticipated albums in rock history, the long-awaited Chinese Democracy marks the first album of new material from Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. With a frenzied energy, Guns N’ Roses arrived on the music scene in the mid-’80s and rock was never the same. Now the enormously influential G N’ R is ready to rock once again.

Chinese Democracy (Black Frog/Geffen Records) will be available globally on November 23 on CD and vinyl (accompanied by a free digital download of the tracks), and as a separate digital album.

Produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, Chinese Democracy includes 14 tracks. The title track and first single from the album, “Chinese Democracy“, will be released to radio at 5:00 am eastern time today. Two of the recordings have been recently released–”Shackler’s Revenge” debuted September 14 in the “Rock Band 2″ videogame and “If The World” debuted October 11 in the film Body Of Lies.

“The release of Chinese Democracy marks a historic moment in rock ‘n’ roll,” said Irving Azoff and Andy Gould, Guns N’ Roses’ co-managers, “and we’re launching with a monumental campaign that matches the groundbreaking sound of the album itself. Guns N’ Roses fans have every reason to celebrate, for this is only the beginning.”

“Guns N’ Roses redefined the American rock band and became a global music icon,” added Steve Berman, President, Sales and Marketing, Interscope Geffen A&M Records. “We’re incredibly excited that Chinese Democracy will be heard worldwide through Geffen Records and the Universal Music Group.”

Seventeen years ago, the two previous original albums from one of rock’s most intense and compelling bands, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, were issued simultaneously, a first for any contemporary artist. Debuting #2 and #1, respectively, they featured three gold hits with “November Rain” (#3), “Don’t Cry” (#10) and the previously released Top 30 “You Could Be Mine” from the film Terminator II: Judgement Day, plus another Top 40 with “Live And Let Die.” Each album went seven times platinum.

The band’s 1987 full-length debut Appetite For Destruction has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide (18 times platinum in the U.S.) and is among the biggest-selling albums in history. The #1 album notched three Top 10 hits–the gold anthem “Welcome To The Jungle” and #1 “Sweet Child o’ Mine” plus “Paradise City.” 1988’s #2, five times platinum G N’ R Lies yielded the gold Top 5 “Patience.” After the Use Your Illusion duo, 1994’s “The Spaghetti Incident?” cover album reached #4 and platinum.

In 1999, a live album earned gold and in 2004 the band’s only Greatest Hits collection peaked at #3 and earned quadruple platinum. Overall, Guns N’ Roses has sold more than 90 million records worldwide.

Source: Geffen

MEMORIAL COLLECTION With All His Hits and More, and DOWN THE LINE - RARITIES With the Complete Undubbed ‘Apartment Tapes’ and Undubbed ‘Garage Tapes’

Each Set Includes Numerous Rare Tracks

February 3, 2009 will mark the 50th anniversary of “The Day The Music Died,” when a plane crash took the lives of rock ‘n’ roll legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the vault of rare Buddy Holly tracks will be opened wide for two multi-disc sets released January 28, 2009.

The three-CD, 60-selection MEMORIAL COLLECTION (Geffen/Decca/UMe), presents a thorough, digitally remastered overview of Holly’s short, yet astonishing career featuring rare undubbed recordings with original partner Bob Montgomery and backing band and collaborators, The Crickets. The collection includes all of Holly’s hits — among them a few of rock’s greatest recordings, “That’ll Be The Day,” “Oh Boy!,” “Maybe Baby,” “Not Fade Away,” “It’s So Easy,” “Peggy Sue,” “Rave On” — the set concludes with selections from the “Apartment Tapes,” in which Holly sings new songs and accompanies himself on acoustic guitar in his New York apartment just months before the tragic crash. One Buddy & Bob recording, “Soft Place In My Heart,” has never before been released while two others from the duo appear on a U.S.-issued album for the first time. “The release of these sets will be a magical moment for the fans who have been waiting for a long time to hear the beginnings of Buddy’s career to the end with the apartment tapes, his last recordings! Holly-lujah!” - Maria Elena Holly

The two-CD, 59-selection DOWN THE LINE - RARITIES (Geffen/UMe), is filled with pre-fame home recordings, alternate takes, undubbed versions, and informal solo tapes. Included is a recording from when Holly was 14 years old; from Buddy & Bob; the complete undubbed “Apartment Tapes”; outtakes and alternates of familiar recordings by Holly and The Crickets; and the undubbed “Garage Tapes.” In “The Garage Tapes,” rehearsals with the Crickets (J.I. Allison and Joe B. Mauldin) were recorded by a friend at various places, including the Holly family garage in late 1956. Buddy ripped through an array of then-current hits, from Chuck Berry’s “Brown-Eyed Handsome Man,” Little Richard’s “Rip It Up,” and Fats Domino’s “Blue Monday,” to Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes,” Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle & Roll,” and Bo Diddley’s “Bo Diddley.”

Cricket J.I Allison fondly recalls laying down some of those famous recordings. “Many of the tunes were done just in Buddy’s garage but I remember doing a few of them like ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘Brown-Eyed Handsome Man,’ way out West at Petty’s studio in Clovis, NM. The line-up was Buddy, myself on drums, Sonny Curtis on guitar and Don Guess on bass.”

The undubbed “Apartment Tapes,” include Buddy’s raw, pre-overdubbed versions of such popular Holly songs as “Peggy Sue Got Married” and “Crying, Waiting, Hoping.”

Along with the U.S. debuts of three “Apartment Tapes” tracks and the undubbed “Holly Hop” (from the “Garage Tapes”) that are heard on both the MEMORIAL COLLECTION and DOWN THE LINE - RARITIES, the latter also releases for the first time anywhere three additional Buddy & Bob tracks. Throughout both retrospectives, the original recordings, shorn of the overdubbed instrumentation added in the early ’60s for belated public consumption, are musical and historical revelations.

In less than two years in the national consciousness, Holly changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll. Steeped in country music, the Lubbock, Texas native soon blended in blues, R&B, and the new Elvis-fired rockabilly. The result was some of the most innovative and influential rock ‘n’ roll ever recorded. Buddy Holly died on February 3, 1959, but his music lives on.

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Source: Universal Music Enterprises