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Guns N' Roses release never-before-seen video for 'It's So Easy'

 'We’re gonna spend a hundred and fifty grand just to make something we want to see'

Clarisse Loughrey
Tuesday 22 May 2018 10:55 BST
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Guns N' Roses have released the previously unseen video for "It's So Easy", ahead of the deluxe reissue of their debut album Appetite for Destruction.

The video was originally shot in 1989 at Riki Rachtman's LA rock club The Cathouse; Axl Rose famously donned a t-shirt featuring the venue in the music video for "Paradise City", while Slash fell through a plate glass window during one of the many nights spent there during the recording of Appetite for Destruction.

However, the "It's So Easy" video was never completed, with the footage sitting in a vault for almost 30 years, until it was recently rediscovered for inclusion on Appetite for Destruction: Locked N' Loaded box set.

Interspersing live footage of the band with risqué sex scenes, popular legend always attributed the video's disappearance to an outright rejection from MTV. Rose says in the clip: "We’re making this for the home video. Actually that’s wrong, it’ll be on the home video, but what we’re making this for is ourselves."

"So, like, you know if we made a nice video for MTV, we put it out, we’d sell more records and sh*t. But instead, we’re gonna spend a hundred and fifty grand just to make something we want to see.”

The 73-track long release features 49 previously unreleased songs, included in a vinyl box set that costs £849.99. It will be released on 29 June.

You can watch the full video at Apple Music.

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