89 - Guns N Roses Sweet Child O´Mine 1987

"Appetite for Destruction" is arguably one of the greatest rock albums of all time. In 1987, people no longer saw that stardom was as glamorous as it seemed, courtesy of a Los Angeles rock going under the alias of Guns N Roses, a name formed by two LA musicians whose pseudonyms were as gritty as the band name- Traci Gun and Axl Rose. Traci left soon after the name sparked, to go from the LA Guns. GNR brought all the volatile, sleazy excess to the forefront, winning themselves a rough fan base, and royally pissing off conservatives and parents alike. Great song, "Sweet Child O´Mine", with its serpentine Slash intro and glorious chorus. Axl became intrigued and started singing the poem he had written. In an interview with Hit Parader magazine in 1988, bassist Duff McKagan noted:
“ The thing about 'Sweet Child,' it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, 'What is this song? It's gonna be nothin', it'll be filler on the record.' And except that vocal-wise, it's very sweet and sincere, Slash was fuckin', fucking or fooling, around when he first wrote that lick".