“Sweet Child O Mine” started as a guitar warm up for Slash as the band gathered for a jam session at The Hellhouse, their base of sleazy operations on the Sunset Strip. “I was f—ing around with this ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Guns N’ Roses’ "Sweet Child O’ Mine" reenters both Billboard Global ...
Guns N’ Roses will headline the Welcome to Rockville festival on Thursday, May 7, 2026. The band's performance will be one of its first U.S. shows on its 2026 world tour. Guns N' Roses, which formed ...
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