Music Magazine  |  Classic Rock Special: Guns N' Roses Fifth Edition
Covering the past and continuing adventures of Guns N’ Roses has probably been the story of Classic Rock’s lifetime. Sure, the first issue of the mag was published over a decade after Appetite For Destruction, but that didn’t stop the band being on the cover of that first issue and many (some would say too many) issues thereafter. Why? Partly because – and it’s difficult to imagine this now – but there was a period back there that GN’R didn’t get the respect they deserved. Mainstream magazines would reveal their lists of The Greatest Albums Of All Time and Appetite, if it made the list at all, would scrape in the lower reaches, out-pipped by the Super Furry Animals or The Flaming bloody Lips. At Classic Rock we’ve always seen ourselves as fighting for bands who had fallen out of fashion, whose faces didn’t fit, who weren’t trendy enough, and with Guns N’ Roses, we had a job to do.
This book features pretty much all of Classic Rock’s coverage collected for the first time. Some stories have only ever been published online, and one was published by our sister magazine Metal Hammer. It’s a story of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll – but that’s the least of it. This is the stuff of Russian novels: full of hopes, dreams, treachery, egos, power, money, ambition and – on one particularly strange occasion – a chicken coop. With dog shit in it. (You’ll see.) Crack its spine and delve in. They don’t make ’em like this any more.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Music Magazine Classic Rock Special: Guns N' Roses Fifth Edition.