Great rock n’ roll is like an aphrodisiac for people. I’m talking sleazy guitar and bass riffs that penetrate your soul, loose drum beats you feel pumping through your heart and dirty, loud, REAL rock music. Guns N’ Roses are without a doubt one of the world’s best, and greatest, rock n’ roll bands to date. Forming from a bunch of misfits that ended up influencing millions, the impact Guns N’ Roses have made (and continue to make) is undeniable. Putting the rock into roll, they’ve always been an essential ingredient in the musical lexicon and since forming in 1985, have been a band that changed the history of rock n’ roll music forever.
According to Joe Perry, the guitarist of Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses are a band that “revived our kind of rock”. They hit the nail on the head; adding a different kind of magic to the music we thought we knew. Inspiring fans and well-loved musicians alike, Guns N’ Roses became an unstoppable force. And the explosive rise of one of the biggest bands – in all their rock n’ roll, sex, drugs and excess glory – fuelled an edgy rock attitude like no other.
Seducing our ears in 1987, Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction carved a whole new level of raunch and repulsiveness into the world of rock n’ roll. Living up to its name as ‘the greatest hard rock record of the 80’s’, Appetite for Destruction arrived like a tsunami into the scene – blowing freakin’ everyone’s minds into a million wonderful, beautifully explicit pieces. Combining bluesy emotion with hardcore dirty riffs, punk rock energy and detailed lyrics about the bands’ drug abuse, sex lives and everything in between, the album had a unique edge to it…and completely dominated every corner of rock n’ roll music.
