Guns N' Roses: The Most Dangerous Band in the World

by Mick Wall

Just when it looked like the raw side of rock 'n' roll had laid down and died, along came The Most Dangerous Band In The World spitting fury, rebellion and a frighteningly original talent. The first Guns N' Roses album, Appetite for Destruction, took the music world by storm, selling over a million copies in Britain alone. Their following is enormous, from teenage headbanger to rock sophisticate to middle-aged housewife. The meteoric rise of Guns N' Roses to super-stardom is now legendary, but the question remains why?

Mick Wall was with the band at every stage of their scintillating career and he traces each step in the great Guns N' Roses takeover. Featuring exclusive interviews with the band, he has captured the essence of their charisma and success - and has also traced some of the most outrageous and candid pronouncements ever made on the world of rock 'n' roll.

Fortune - Axl: 'We stopped counting after we got past $100 million.'

Sex - Slash: 'It's usually six in the morning and the only girls left hanging around look like something out of the Evil Dead. The trick is to just take 'em up to your room and keep drinking until they start to look good.'

Drugs - Duff: 'Sure, sure, of course... Everybody in this band has had his bouts with drugs. You got any?'

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Mick Wall is an author, journalist, film, television and radio writer-producer, who’s worked inside the music industry for over 35 years. He began his career contributing to the music weekly Sounds in 1977, where he wrote about punk and the new wave, and then rockabilly, funk, New Romantic pop and, eventually, hard rock and heavy metal. By 1983, Wall become one of the main journalists in the early days of Kerrang! magazine, where he was their star cover story writer for the next nine years. He subsequently became the founding editor of Classic Rock magazine in 1998, and presented his own television and radio shows.

Reviews

[Aurora Dimitre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really, this is mostly a series of interviews with Slash, except Wall gets real fancy with his in-scene descriptors. I've read Mick Wall's Metallica book, and that one was more a straight biography--this is just a bunch of interviews with Slash, with a couple of Duff and Axl sprinkled in there for good measure. Shit's fun, and I like how overdramatic Wall gets sometimes.

[Jadwiga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Całkiem fajna pozycja o zespole, który stworzył wspaniałą muzykę. Jest to zbiór wywiadów jakie udało się przeprowadzić dziennikarzowi z członkami Guns N' Roses. Szybka i lekka lektura w której widać, jak zmieniają się muzycy wraz z osiągnięciem ogromnego sukcesu i jednocześnie jak próbują oni zaprzeczać tym zmianom. Niestety relacja Mick'a Wall'a kończy się z początkiem 1991 czyli jeszcze przed wydaniem płyt "Use Your Illusion I i II.

[Carmen von Rohr · Rating 1 out of 5]

Stupid crap I read when I was young and am now purging from my literal bookshelves.