It's been said before, but RollingStone.com has an article that quotes Axl Rose himself on the likelihood that the super-delayed album Chinese Democracy will see the light of day in 2006. While at an early morning party in Hollywood's Forever Cemetary, Rose told Steve Baltin that "people will hear music this year." He added:

"I'm trying to do something different. Some of the arrangements are kind of like Queen. Some people are going to say, 'It doesn't sound like Axl Rose, it doesn't sound like Guns n' Roses.' But you'll like at least a few songs on there."

Never short of ambition, Rose said he's working on 32 tracks and 26 are already done.

Chinese Democracy is often called the most anticipated album in rock history, but an album can't be called that every single year. The delays, secrecy and costs involved with the album are the stuff of legend. The NY Times' Jeff Leeds wrote an article on the long lost album titled The Most Expensive Album Never Made. In the March 2005 article he claimed production costs had totalled $13 million, and he argued that the more the industry rely on "proven stars like Rose, the less it can control them."