Guns N' Roses: The Band
Guns N' Roses are an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985.
Having sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide, they are one of America's most successful hard rock bands. Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, produced by Mike Clink, went on to sell 20 million copies worldwide and reached number 1 in the USA a year after its release date. The song "Welcome To The Jungle", the first track released from the album, gained notoriety after it was used on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's 1988 film The Dead Pool.
The band's musical style, onstage presence, and image helped usher in a new era within the dominant hard rock and heavy metal scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While glam metal was the leading genre in record sales, video charts, and radio airplay, Guns N' Roses offered a grittier, more traditionalist take on rock music, which helped to popularize the sub-genre known as sleaze rock and won many fans who admired their apparent authenticity. The band enjoyed worldwide success from 1987 through 1993, but clashing personalities of different band members brought about the end of the original line-up. Today, frontman Axl Rose is the only original member in the band's current lineup.
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