33, damn thats young   Looking at his grave, he died 3 weeks after I was born, and on my granpas birthday.

The Shawshank Redemtion.

Once Upon A Time In America is a really great film, but Shawshank is so much more emotionally powerful, its absolutely flawless. Its gonna take something special to beat it, it must be a strong contender to take the crown.

John McClane is taking the worst thrashing of his life here.

OK last I heard there were no plans for a reunion, I'm sure Axl mentioned it somewhere....

Soooo anyway.

Some artists like to test out their new songs in their car stereos or invite friends to the studio to hear playbacks. How did you listen to the album when it was a work in progress?

My studio, car stereos, a CD Walkman, computers and different speaker setups, clubs, iPods. Actually, our first leaks were from using a sound system in a strip club in the early hours when it was basically empty. I went there to play the tracks for someone I was interested in working with. I'd gone there with a guy who worked band security, who was allegedly somehow related to the owners, feeling it was a bit more of a protected environment than it turned out to be.

The album sounds amazing in the car, theres something special about cranking an album up when your on a long journey and singing your balls off. The music sounds so much better in that enclosed space.

I actually crashed my work van into the back of a family of tourists on a country road in 2007 listening to the demos.
I was singing The Blues at the top of my voice and admiring the scenery and never noticed they had stopped suddenly, I skidded and smashed into then knocking their car right into a field.
What a twat I felt

So would the songs I was listening to have came from that strip club?
How would that have worked, would someone just have pressed record while they were being played?

Richard looks like he has been hitting the weights, he doesnt look as lean as before.