On this day (May 2) in 2004, readers of Total Guitar Magazine voted that Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child o’ Mine” had contained the best guitar riff ever. Thousands of readers cast their votes, putting ...
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30 Years Ago, Guns N’ Roses Accidentally Created the Song That Became Their First and Only Billboard #1 Hit
From the moment Guns N’ Roses debuted in the rock music scene with “Welcome to the Jungle,” bands and fans knew they were the ones to watch — and they were right. It’s been 30 years since “Sweet Child ...
“Yeah, I have to admit I did have a thing with it,” he says with a laugh in a new Guitar World interview. “It was a riff I came up with, and I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I wasn’t ...
On this day (September 10) in 1992, Guns N’ Roses topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first and only time with “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” It spent two weeks at No. 1 and remains a favorite of fans of the ...
Slash was there when, in the aftermath of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, the band suddenly exploded onto a chaotic arc from Sunset Strip hopefuls to one of the biggest, ...
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash didn't like Sweet Child O' Mine at first. The 1988 track has become one of the rock band's defining singles but the musician was unconvinced by the "ballad" feel to the ...
Tehuan Harris is a news and features journalist at Collider, reporting and writing about all things music and reality TV (sometimes). She is a talented journalist and a natural storyteller who writes ...
To date, Guns N' Roses have released six "new" songs since 2016: "Absurd" and "Hard Skool" in 2021; "Perhaps" and "The ...
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