Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine

Sweet Child o’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses, Music Video, Lyrics and Review

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” is a song by the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses. It was released on their debut album Appetite for Destruction on July 21, 1987.

Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine Video

Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine Lyrics

She’s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I’d stare too long
I’d probably break down and cry

Sweet child o’ mine
Sweet love of mine

She’s got eyes of the bluest skies
As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I’d hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

Sweet child o’ mine
Sweet love of mine

Where do we go
Where do we go now
Where do we go
Sweet child o’ mine

Guns N’ Roses - Sweet Child o’ Mine Review and Song Info

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” was Guns N’ Roses’ first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at the top spot in September 1988.

The song is credited as being written by Guns N’ Roses as a band; more specifically it contains Slash’s riff, Izzy’s chords, Axl’s lyrics, McKagan’s bass line, and Adler’s drum line. The subject of the song is lead singer Axl Rose’s then-girlfriend and eventual wife, Erin Everly.

The “Sweet Child o’ Mine” video depicts the band rehearsing in an abandoned theater, surrounded by crew members. Several of the band members’ girlfriends were shown in the clip. The video was extremely successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio.

“Sweet Child o’ Mine” placed #37 on Guitar World’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitar Solos.” It also came in at number three on Blender’s 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at number 196 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The introduction’s famous riff was also voted number-one riff of all-time by the readers of Total Guitar magazine. It was also in Rolling Stones 40 Greatest Songs that Changed the World. It places number 7 in VH1’s “100 Best Songs of the 80s”, and placed #210 on the RIAA Songs of the Century list.
On a recent BBC poll, the song was voted to have the “greatest guitar riff ever”.

Released 1988
Recorded 1987
Genre Hard rock
Length 5:56
Label Geffen
Writers Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin
Producer Mike Clink

source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Child_o’_Mine

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