It is the third track on the album and is the opening track.
Background and composition
The song was written by guitarists Slash and Buckethead. It is one of the few Guns N' Roses songs in which one guitarist plays rhythm and the other is the lead.
The guitar solo in the song is played by Buckethead. He said "I just said fuck it, here goes nothing! You know, I'm going to do my little solo thing, and the next thing you know, we're all singing "Sweet Child o' Mine." It was probably just ten minutes of me trying to prove that I was not a noodler, because that's all anybody had to do."
Structure and arrangement
The song is in the key of A minor, with a standard time signature of 4/4. It opens with an acoustic section, then changes to a rock section. The song is heavily influenced by Bob Seger, who played the song on his album Beautiful Loser, released six months prior.
Music video
The video for Sweet Child o' Mine is a home video of a live performance of the song by Guns N' Roses at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989. It starts with the camera panning around the room, focusing on Axl Rose in the middle of the room and following his movements, with the band interspersed throughout. Axl sings the first verse with a male chorus singing background vocals. Axl ends the second verse with a guitar solo. The crowd responds to the solo with enthusiastic applause. During the solo, a man onstage raises his hands, and Axl responds with a few distorted chords, ending with "Hell yeah!" with a band interlude.
The song is played at the end of the video, with the band performing a more energetic version. During the end of the song, Axl is seen lying on his back, hanging from the ceiling. He is seen lying down on a bed, and then a scene where Axl is lying down on the back of a car driving down the road with smoke coming out of the vehicle, similar to one seen at the end of the video for Out Ta Get Me. The man in the background is seen stretching his arm out, with Axl seemingly reaching out to him with his hand. The song ends with a clip of Axl kissing the man on the back of the neck.
Throughout the performance, the crowd, which can be seen from the video, are seen actively participating in the 3125841983
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