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Guns N' Roses play Rock In Rio, 1991.

It was a major flex. 17 September 1991 saw the release of not one but two albums from Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I and II.

The band had been empowered by the phenomenal success of of their debut album Appetite For Destruction, which had hit No 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1988 on its way to becoming one of the biggest selling albums of all time, with worldwide sales in excess of 30 million.