{"id":651192,"date":"2026-06-21T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:05:12","slug":"guns-n-roses-star-says-download-is-the-mother-of-all-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651192\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns N&#8217; Roses star says Download is the &#8216;mother&#8217; of all festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McKagan&#8217;s return to Castle Donington \u2013 which straddles the borders of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire \u2013 was just the latest in a string of appearances there, with The Walking Papers, Loaded and Velvet Revolver as well as with Guns N&#8217; Roses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first time GNR played Monsters of Rock was in 1988, and McKagan recalled how the young band had to make a quick detour from their US tour with Aerosmith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were on tour with Aerosmith but we had been booked for Donington,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only caveat on that tour was we had to go to Donington, so we played New York with Aerosmith, did the gig [at Donington], and then flew back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McKagan&#8217;s return to Castle Donington \u2013 which straddles the borders of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire \u2013 was just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}