{"id":52232,"date":"2012-03-17T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=52232"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:06:46","slug":"guns-n-roses-set-for-istanbul-concert-this-summer-website-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/03\/17\/guns-n-roses-set-for-istanbul-concert-this-summer-website-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns N\u2019 Roses set for \u0130stanbul concert this summer, website says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: EPA)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52234\" title=\"guns-roses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/guns-roses.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/guns-roses.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/guns-roses-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guns N\u2019 Roses will rock \u0130stanbul this summer. Turkey will host the legendary American hard rock band for the third time when Guns N\u2019 Roses takes to the stage July 6 in an as-yet-unspecified venue as part of an as-yet-unspecified open-air festival, according to the band\u2019s official website, .<\/p>\n<p>The \u0130stanbul concert will be preceded by an appearance on June 29 at the See-Rock Festival in Graz, Austria, and followed by a stadium gig on July 8 in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, according to the website. The concerts will be part of the band\u2019s \u201cUp Close and Personal Tour,\u201d which sees the band perform in several venues across the US in March.<\/p>\n<p>The band, formed in 1985 in Los Angeles, right now features only frontman Axl Rose from its original lineup. Best known for such hits as \u201cSweet Child O\u2019 Mine,\u201d \u201cWelcome to the Jungle\u201d and \u201cUsed to Love Her,\u201d Guns N\u2019 Roses will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.<\/p>\n<p>Guns N\u2019 Roses performed its first live gig in Turkey in 1993, a year when world-class acts including Madonna, Metallica and Bon Jovi, among others, made their first-ever Turkish appearances in unforgettable stadium gigs. The band also played \u0130stanbul in July 2006.<\/p>\n<p>via Guns N\u2019 Roses set for \u0130stanbul concert this summer, website says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo: EPA) Guns N\u2019 Roses will rock \u0130stanbul this summer. Turkey will host the legendary American hard rock band for the third time when Guns N\u2019 Roses takes to the stage July 6 in an as-yet-unspecified venue as part of an as-yet-unspecified open-air festival, according to the band\u2019s official website, . The \u0130stanbul concert will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":52234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[8070],"class_list":["post-52232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-guns-n-roses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}