Rock ‘n’ roll has never been short of stories of bands making it big based on pure talent. Every now and then, from the ashes of scores of studio-manufactured-manager-marketed sham bands rises a phenomenon such as Guns N’ Roses. And like all rock ‘n’ roll success stories, GN’R was formed under circumstances so ordinary, that young boys and girls still try and recreate such situations in the hopes of making it big.

What has set this band apart from former overlords such as Led Zeppelin or latter drug-infested, teen messiahs such as Kurt Cobain, is the fact that front man Axl Rose always wrote songs that were realistic, direct, pointed and honest. || Go here to read the rest …