Sweet Child O'Mine - Guns N' Roses

"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses from their debut album Appetite for Destruction. It was the third single from that album and was released in August 1988, and later reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's only number one hit in the US. Billboard listed the song as the fifth-best song of 1988. When re-released in 1989, "Sweet Child o' Mine" peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart.

Moreover, "Sweet Child o' Mine" ranked 37th on Guitar World magazine's best guitar solos list. The song is ranked 3rd on Blender magazine's 500 Greatest Songs Since You've Been Born list and 198th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs list. In March 2005, Q magazine ranked "Sweet Child o' Mine" on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs. In a poll conducted by Total Guitar magazine in 2004, the song's famous intro riff was voted number one among the best riffs of all time by the publication's readers. In addition, the song also featured in Rolling Stone's 40 Greatest Songs That Changed the World, and also ranked 7th in VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s and ranked 210th on the RIAA's Songs of the Century list.

Meaning: "Sweet Child O' Mine" acts as the band's manifesto. This song is not only the beginning of their fame, their pioneering with a whole new kind of rock music.

Publishing year: 1988