China Nixes Chinese Democracy

Album title means new G'n'R record faces wall of Chinese censorship

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 22, 2008 9:08 AM CST

(Newser) – China's government-owned music monopoly has told record stores not to waste their time trying to order the first new Guns N' Roses album in 17 years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Officials say the title alone—Chinese Democracy—would probably be enough to doom it,... Read full story »

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