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Guns N' Roses: Raising Hell in the City of Angels

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 April 1987

Over on L.A.'s Santa Monica Boulevard, rock renegades GUNS N' ROSES are having a ball. PAUL ELLIOTT parrys shots with L.A.'s scuzziest scumbags. ...

Guns N' Roses, Jane's Addiction: Guns N' Roses: The Subterraneans

Report and Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 6 June 1987

Something's crawling from the gutters of Los Angeles, something bright and proud and bad, something making claims on setting a scene. Jonh Wilde took a ...

Guns N' Roses: Colt Heroes

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 11 June 1987

"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...

Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen) **; Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1987

WHAM, GLAM, NO THANK YOU, MA'AM ...

Guns N' Roses: Paradise Theater, Boston

Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 29 October 1987

New band that's special ...

Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard: Def Leppard: Hysteria (Polygram); Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen)

Review by Deborah Frost, Creem, December 1987

WAS IT REALLY worth the wait? Four years and nearly two million dollars later, Def Leppard has finally unveiled their new "masterpiece." What Hysteria's constipated ...

Guns N' Roses: Days Of Guns N' Roses

Interview by Bill Holdship, Spin, May 1988

In which our reporter discovers that L.A.'s reputed bad boys are good-bad, but they're not evil. ...

Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses: Gun Law: War of the Roses

Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 20 August 1988

Blasting rumours of a split, the uncompromising GUNS N' ROSES have shot to the top with their hardbitten sound. PAUL ELLIOTT gets a taste of the band's addiction to ...

Guns N' Roses: The Rocky Horror Show

Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 3 September 1988

When Guns N' Roses were interviewed just before they performed at Castle Donington last week, guitarist Slash said, "The kids need to have that one ...

Guns N' Roses: The Hard Truth About Guns N' Roses

Special Feature by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1988

Finally, some bad boys who are good ...

Guns N' Roses: If Guns N' Roses are Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Guns N' Roses

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, December 1988

"IF I'D GONE on through school," Axl Rose says, "I'd probably be a lawyer. Then I could take half the people who screw with me ...

Guns N' Roses: Slash and The Cash

Interview by Steve Mascord, On The Street, 7 December 1988

BLINK, AND you'll miss a band being compared to the Rolling Stones. Everyone from the Monkees to Crowded House to your local pub group have ...

Guns N' Roses: Dancing with Mr Brownstone

Profile by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 4 November 1989

GUNS N' ROSES are the archetypal rock'n'roll renegades — loud-mouthed American punks fuelled on liquor and drugs as they rampage on a crazed course towards self-destruction. Paul ...

Guns N' Roses: Slash: Appetite for Reconstruction

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, December 1990

Access to Excess with Guns N' Roses' Slash ...

Guns N' Roses: Tears Before Bedtime?

Profile and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Q, July 1991

Axl fired the band. The band fired Axl. Then they made up – and fired the drummer instead. Slash checked into rehab — than checked ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I (Geffen)

Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 21 September 1991

THERE'S TWO schools of thought about Guns N'Roses. For some they're "the most dangerous band in the world"; for others, their brand of "danger" is ...

Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Wimps ‘R’ Us

Essay by Deborah Frost, Village Voice, 1 October 1991

SMART BOYS DON'T talk about anarchy; stupid boys don't know about it. It's hard to imagine, say, Emma Goldman (who, true, was not really a ...

Guns N' Roses: The Last Angry White Man

Essay by RJ Smith, LA Weekly, 10 October 1991

A RED STATION wagon slows down in front of Tower Records on Sunset. It nuzzles up near the curb, where a line of people wait ...

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion 1; Use Your Illusion 2 (Geffen)

Review by Paul Elliott, Vox, November 1991

THE BAND'S ex-manager Alan Niven described Use Your Illusion I and II as "Pink Floyd's The Wall meets Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti." Niven was on ...

Guns N' Roses: Slash Speaks

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Music Life, 17 November 1991

THE PLUSH CONRAD HOTEL at Chelsea Harbour has for some reason (maybe it's the copious amount of Moet & Chandon champagne in the minibar!) become ...