Guns N' Roses Geffen Records "6x Platinum" album award for Appetite For Destruction. Appetite was released on July 21, 1987. This award displays the original banned Appetite artwork. The success of the album kept going, and by 2008 it had reached RIAA-certified sales of 18 million copies. (Note: This is not a RIAA award).
Appetite topped the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and became the seventh best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. "Welcome To The Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Paradise City" all became massive hits.
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Item Highlights:
- Geffen Records "6x Platinum" album award for Guns N' Roses album Appetite For Destruction
- In VG to Excellent condition
- Award estimated to be from around 1988 based on the 6x Multi-Platinum certification date of Appetite
- Presented to A&R executive who signed GNR (read about all the Mötley Crüe and Guns N' Roses awards presented to him here).
- Award measures approx. 30.5" x 21.5"
- Reframed with glass front (not plexiglass)
- Awesome collector's item for any Guns N' Roses fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This is a Geffen Records label award presented to Tom Zutaut, an A&R executive with Elektra and Geffen Records who famously signed Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, Dokken, Tesla, Edie Brickell, Enya, and others. One of Zutaut's original Elektra Records business cards is included with this item. Read more about Zutaut and the other awards in this collection all presented to him here. Here is Zutaut with Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx in the 80s:
The award, dated to around 1988, is therefore approx. 34 years old. This award is in Excellent condition. Its' original internal components have been reframed and its' plexiglass front has been replaced with real glass, making for clear, scratchless viewing of the award.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com