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
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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.
Tom Petty knew what it was like to move to California on a whim in the hopes of becoming a star. So when it came time to
The recording sessions for Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion albums were, by all accounts, laborious and often bleak affairs, inhibited by substance abuse and infighting. But things
If 1976’s Live Bullet began the ascendance to superstardom for Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, 1981’s Nine Tonight commemorated the group’s arrival at