Guns N' Roses fan wins rock party

One Guns N' Roses fan has won the chance to hear the band's new album Chinese Democracy before anyone else.

Jimmy Reay from London was asked to show off his skills in an air guitar competition on the band's YouTube channel.

Those wishing to enter had to upload their "craziest, most inappropriate air guitar" performances.

Jimmy Reay will hear Chinese Democracy at a private "rock party" before its release on 24 November.

He'll be picked up in a limousine, driven to a local venue where he and 100 of his friends will get to hear the album and get free drinks.

He won the prize by playing air guitar in London's Chinatown, on the tube and in a major railway station.

Watch the winning Guns N' Roses video on YouTube

Chinese Democracy is the first original material from the group since 1991's double release Use Your Illusion I and II.

Only vocalist Axl Rose remains from the original line-up of the band, whose last album release was the 1993 covers collection "The Spaghetti Incident?".

Earlier this year, Dr Pepper promised to supply every person in America with a free can of the soft drink if Chinese Democracy was released in 2008.