The video was successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio. All of the band members' girlfriends at the time were shown in the clip: Rose's girlfriend Erin Everly, daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers McKagan's girlfriend Mandy Brix, from the all-female rock band the Lame Flames Stradlin's girlfriend Angela Nicoletti Adler's girlfriend Cheryl Swiderski and Slash's girlfriend Sally McLaughlin. The "Sweet Child o' Mine" video depicts the band rehearsing in Mendiola's Ballroom at Huntington Park, surrounded by crew members. Īn alternate version featuring half a live version, half a newly recorded 1999 version plays during the credits of the movie Big Daddy. Listening to the demo in a loop, Rose started saying to himself, "Where do we go? Where do we go now?" and Proffer suggested that he sing that. The musicians agreed, but were not sure what to do. When the band recorded demos with producer Spencer Proffer, he suggested adding a breakdown at the song's end.
He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly (daughter of Don Everly and Venetia Stevenson), and declared that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration "to make sure that we'd got that heartfelt feeling.” On the next composing session in Burbank, the band added a bridge and a guitar solo. In his autobiography, Slash said "within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else.” Lead singer Axl Rose was listening to the musicians upstairs in his room and was inspired to write lyrics, which he completed by the following afternoon. Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan created a bassline and Adler planned a beat.
Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin asked Slash to play it again.
Re-released there in May 1989, it peaked at number six.ĭuring a jam session at the band's house in the Sunset Strip, drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a "circus" melody while making faces at Adler. In the United Kingdom, the song was released in August 1988, reaching number 24 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. In the United States, the song was released in June 1988 as the album's third single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single. It appears on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). " Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses.
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