22-5/8” wide x 18-1/2” high overall (18”w x 14”h image area) in a custom-made black, ash effect, 1-1/2” wood frame (see image sample, below) with museum-quality Plexiglas up front and ready-to-hang. Approx. 6lbs. shipping weight.

 

These highly-collectible, framed presentations feature custom matting with screen-printed graphics, multiple mini-posters of related album artwork and/or photography, specially-highlighted song titles mounted on banners floated above real CD discs, all set on an acid free, double-matted mounting board. 

 

Appetite for Destruction was the 1987 debut album by LA hard-rockers Guns N’ Roses. One of the best-selling albums ever, the package reached #1 on the Billboard 200 (after over a year on the charts). Over 25 million copies were sold worldwide (15 million of those selling in the United States alone), and Rolling Stone magazine later ranked it #61 on their 2003 list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

 

The band’s songs painted powerful musical pictures of the gritty parts of LA’s most-notorious neighborhoods and the dangers of the life found there – the cheap sex, drugs and crime many innocents found themselves caught up in soon after their arrival there (“looking for fame and fortune”).

 

A painting by artist Robert Williams (titled “Appetite for Destruction”) was to have been used as the cover of the album, but backlash from retailers about the painting’s disturbing imagery (showing a mechanical rapist, standing over his injured victim, about to be attacked by a toothy avenging monster) forced the label to move the painting to inside the CD’s booklet, replacing it with a tattoo-style cross on which five skulls were hung. Each skull represented one of the band members - Top - Izzy Stradlin (guitar/vocals); Left  – Steven Adler (drums); Center – Axl Rose (vocals); Right – Duff McKagan (bass/vocals) and Bottom – Slash (guitars).