Guns N' Roses – 15 years (1993-2008)
No list of long-delayed albums would be complete without reference to Guns N' Roses. The band were about as big as a rock band could get when they came off the Use Your Illusion tour in 1992. Having dashed off a will-this-do covers album in 1993 (the forgettable The Spaghetti Incident?) Axl Rose took the band into the studio to record the follow-up, Chinese Democracy, allegedly the first of a trilogy of new albums. The recording sessions led to the departure of every original member of the band apart from Rose, with costs reportedly spiralling to a record $13 million.
