Use Your Illusion I

Use Your Illusion I
Studio album by Guns N' Roses
Released	September 17, 1991 (1991-09-17)
Recorded	January 13, 1990 – August 3, 1991
Studio	A&M (Hollywood) Record Plant (Los Angeles) Studio 56 (Los Angeles) Image Recording (Hollywood) Conway (Los Angeles) Metalworks (Mississauga, Ontario)
Genre	Hard rock heavy metal blues rock
Length	76:09
Label	Geffen
Producer	Mike Clink Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses chronology
G N' R Lies (1988) Use Your Illusion I Use Your Illusion II (1991) Use Your Illusion World Tour I Use Your Illusion World Tour II (1992)
Singles from Use Your Illusion I
"Don't Cry" Released: September 1991 "Live and Let Die" Released: December 1991 "November Rain" Released: February 1992

Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released on September 17, 1991, the same day as its counterpart Use Your Illusion II. It was the band's first album to feature drummer Matt Sorum, who replaced Steven Adler following Adler's departure in 1990 (although he was featured again on "Civil War", which appears on Use Your Illusion II), as well as keyboardist Dizzy Reed. Both albums were released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 685,000 copies in its first week, behind Use Your Illusion II's first-week sales of 770,000.^[1] Use Your Illusion I has sold 5,502,000 units in the United States as of 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[2] Each of the Use Your Illusion albums have been certified 7× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992.^[3]