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LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN

How do you improve an already epic, emotive track? GIVE SLASH A CALL!

THERE’S AN obvious centerpiece to , it’s the album’s title cut, which features not only piano and vocal contributions from Elton John, but also a soaring and majestic solo from Slash, which acts as a fitting climax to an already epic, emotive track. Slash has played with Ozzy numerous times over the years, and he was brought into the project via a phone call from his Guns N’ Roses band mate, Duff McKagan. But when he

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