Rumours over Guns N' Roses album

13 October 2008 08:40am

Could the long-awaited album from Guns N' Roses finally see the retail light of day?

Work on Chinese Democracy, the American rockers' sixth studio album, started in 1999, and while the record seems to be finished, the release date keeps getting pushed back.

But now Hitsdailydouble.com reports that Interscope has set a release date of November 23. This follows rumours that Guns N' Roses' manager Andy Gould said that the LP would be on store shelves by November 25.

A spokesperson for the label has not responded to requests to confirm the stories.

Some of the tracks have been heard - If The World accompanies the closing credits in Ridley Scott's spy thriller Body Of Lies, and Shackler's Revenge appears on the Rock Band 2 game.

If the reports are true, then November 23 marks the end of a 17-year saga with confusing delays and a change of musicians. And none would be happier than frontman Axl Rose.

"To say the making of this album has been an unbearably long and incomprehensible journey would be an understatement," he wrote on an online posting in 2006.

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