When Guns N´ Roses´ full-length debut, Appetite for Destruction, came out 30 years ago on July 21, 1987, it was met with resistance and controversy. But of course, anything less from L.A.´s resident bad-boy rockers would have been disappointing. At the time, vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler were the hellions of the Sunset Strip. When they weren´t making music, they partied hard enough to kill most young men - or at least leave them with their heads hanging over the toilet for days. They drank, doped, fought, and f***ed with the conviction that what didn´t kill them would make them stronger and the realization that they´d...
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