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Guns N' Roses Rumors: GNR To Re Record Appetite & Play New Zealand Next Year?

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Channel: Rock N' Roll True Stories 2 · 2016 · Music

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Paul Dainty. The name might not be instantly recognisable but many Kiwis will know him by his work: bringing some of the biggest names down under.  

The promoter – a softly spoken Brit with more than 40 years industry experience – has over the decades delivered us a plethora of acts, from the Rolling Stones in the early 1970s, to Prince earlier this year. He managed to have Katy Perry swing by on her Prismatic World Tour back in 2014 and brought US comedian Billy Crystal to our shores just this week.

"Prince's Piano and A Microphone was one of the most outstanding shows I've ever seen," he says. "You got goose bumps watching Prince do that show."  

His latest challenge: wooing rock gods Guns N Roses – recently reformed after years apart – to Auckland's Western Springs park. He is also working to bring Adele to Eden Park in 2017 but is coy on the details.

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