New Guns N' Roses Song Leaked By Harley-Davidson

After countless delays and postponements, the latest being earlier this month, Guns 'N Roses have spoken out regarding one of their new songs that's been getting recent radio airplay. According to the band's website, the song "Better" is being considered by many radio stations to be a single, but hasn't been officially released as such.

"We were doing a commercial with Harley-Davidson," keyboardist Dizzy Reed said in a post on March 12. "Harley was going to do a version using 'Paradise City' and another version using 'Better.' Their website even had a version up for like one day with 'Better,' but the version of 'Better' that they had was an unfinished, unapproved demo. That's why it was removed. The version that's getting airplay is that same demo.

"Our understanding of how that happened is that an experimental edit using 'Better' in place of 'Paradise City' was somehow accidentally mislabeled as the 'Paradise City' Harley-Davidson video/commercial and was inadvertently released on the internet. We believe the 'leak' came from this source tape and someone with access to it."

Reed also stated that the band have never purposely leaked the songs from the forthcoming Chinese Democracy album.

"It's really frustrating working on something as hard as we have and then having it wind up on the internet before it's finished," he says, perhaps oblivious to the fact the album has been in the works for over a decade.

As previously reported, the band say they're close to completing the album, which briefly had a release date of March 6. GN'R announced that they were currently mixing the record in late February but no new date has been set. Chinese Democracy will be their first album of original material since 1991's simultaneous releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. —Jason MacNeil