In a blaze of howling solos, soaring anthems and lurid tales of outrageous
behaviour, the sneering LA bad boys injected a visceral dose of sex, drugs and
rock'n'roll into the 1980s. Debut album Appetite For Destruction (1987) sold 27
million copies, with singles Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine and
Paradise City announcing a new gang of stadium-filling rock gods. Use Your
Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2 were released on the same day in 1991 to give
them the top two spots on the US album chart and the single November Rain was
the most requested video in MTV history. B...