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, ...

“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 ...

Guns N’ Roses score a pair of top 40 hits (with “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle”) and albums (with Appetite for Destruction and Greatest Hits) in the U.K. Guns And Roses (Duff McCagan ...

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 ...

Despite creating one of rock’s most iconic riffs, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has admitted he initially had doubts about the band’s 1988 hit “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” In a recent interview with Guitar ...

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 ...

For those who thought two albums from Guns N' Roses in 1991 was too much of a good thing, Alan Niven, the band's former manager, is in firm agreement with you, cutting the classic double album down to ...

However impossible it might have been to follow a perfect debut, Guns N' Roses would do it on their own terms with twin ...

A re-telling of the Guns N’ Roses song “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” this picture book reimagines the power ballad as a story about two girls, Maya and Natalia Rose, who have grown up touring with the band.