The rise of MTV ran parallel to the success of the Go-Go’s, who became mainstays on the newly launched network in 1981 thanks to their video
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Lest anybody think Guns N’ Roses had gone soft in the four years since releasing their seminal debut, Appetite for Destruction, they kicked off their
On Matt Sorum’s first day as Guns N’ Roses’ drummer, he got an eye-opening look at the band’s creative process as it worked on the
Guns N’ Roses have never been shy about admiring classic-rock artists such as AC/DC, Queen and Elton John. On Use Your Illusion I, the band
A couple of reliable cliches come to mind for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry”: “if at first you don’t succeed” or perhaps “twice as nice.”
Despite occasionally getting lumped in with their heavier peers, Guns N’ Roses were never a metal band, owing a greater debt to blooze-rock bilge rats like Aerosmith
One of the most popular and reductive theories in rock history is that grunge singlehandedly destroyed glam metal overnight after the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind. While
When Guns N’ Roses returned to their studio after a boozy afternoon in a nearby club, the result was what then-drummer Matt Sorum described as
Guns N’ Roses’ penchant for excess made them a liability from day one, and they reflected on their insatiable drug habits in sobering detail on the swaggering
The hatred and anger Axl Rose spewed on “Back Off Bitch” was more than a decade old by the time it appeared on a record.