THE YEAR: 1988
THE CONTROVERSY: Guns N’ Roses seemed to enjoy courting controversy — and that joy apparently extended to their album covers. Their astonishing first album, 1987’s Appetite for Destruction, used an image, drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Williams, depicting a raping robot — later versions used different art. The album cover to their sophomore effort, G N’ R Lies, was a collage of faux tabloid stories, which included two misogynistic headlines: “Wife-beating has been around for 10,000 years” and “Ladies, welcome to the dark ages”
WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS: Responding to numerous complaints, new versions of the album utilized new headlines: “LIES LIES LIES” and “Elephant gives birth to midget”
PHOTOS: Two Decades of Guns N’ Roses