HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Dr Pepper is quenching America’s thirst now that Axl Rose has delivered.
The soft-drink maker is making good on its promise to “give everyone in America a free soda” if the singer released the new Guns N’ Roses album, “Chinese Democracy,” this year. The band’s long-awaited album is set to go on sale Sunday.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Dr Pepper is quenching America’s thirst now that Axl Rose has delivered.
The soft-drink maker is making good on its promise to “give everyone in America a free soda” if the singer released the new Guns N’ Roses album, “Chinese Democracy,” this year. The band’s long-awaited album is set to go on sale Sunday.
“We never thought this day would come,” Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper’s vice president of marketing, said in a statement. “But now that it’s here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.”
Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper’s Web site. The coupons may be redeemed until Feb. 28.
Dr Pepper made the offer in March, although they did exclude the band’s former guitarists Slash and Buckethead, who “will not be eligible for free soda.”
“Tired of a world in which Americans idolize wannabe singers and musicals about high schoolers pass as rock ‘n roll music, Dr Pepper is encouraging (OK, begging) Axl Rose to finally release his 17-year-in-the-making belabored masterpiece, ‘Chinese Democracy,’ in 2008,” the company said in its March press release.
“In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if the album ships some time — anytime! — in 2008. Dr Pepper supports Axl, and fully understands that sometimes you have to make it through the jungle before you get it right.”
Formed in Los Angeles in 1985, Guns N’ Roses has undergone several lineup changes and controversy over the years, and the band has not released any new material since 1991’s “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II.” The infamous album, “Chinese Democracy,” was in production for more than a decade.
“Appetite for Destruction,” the band’s 1987 major label debut album, has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide to date.
