American rock legends Guns N' Roses released Use Your Illusion I — its third studio album — on Sept. 17, 1991, the same day as its counterpart Use Your Illusion II. Both albums were released in conjunction with the Use Your IllusionTour.

The Illusion albums were GNR's third and fourth studio releases and they debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard 200 album chart, with II taking the top spot and I coming just bwehind as the pair sold nearly 1.5 million copies during their first week on the charts.

The albums feature some of the band's most enduring, musically adventurous hard rock anthems, including the ultimate metal ballads, "November Rain" and "Don't Cry," their signature cover of Paul McCartney's James Bond anthem "Live and Let Die," as well as the burners "You Could Be Mine" and "Civil War," "Double Talkin' Jive," "Pretty Tied Up" and another iconic metal-edge cover: Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door."