6 STORIES
1987 · 80S
A six-and-a-half-minute fever dream that opens with a wistful acoustic shimmer and ends in a tempo-doubled stampede, Paradise City is Guns N…
1987 · 80S
The most recognisable guitar riff in American rock began as a joke — a finger-twisting warm-up exercise Slash was goofing around with and re…
1987 · 80S
LOS ANGELES, USA
A snarling postcard from late-Reagan-era Los Angeles, "Welcome to the Jungle" turned a runaway teenager's first night on the Greyhound into …
1988 · 80S
LOS ANGELES, USA
The most tender song in the Guns N' Roses catalogue is not really a love song at all — it is a plea for time, written by a guitarist whose r…
1991 · 90S
A power ballad written years before it was released, "Don't Cry" arrived as the emotional centerpiece of Guns N' Roses' twin 1991 epics, Use…
1991 · 90S
A nearly nine-minute orchestral power ballad released at the peak of hair-metal's last gasp, "November Rain" is the song where Axl Rose stop…