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  • Sheryl Crow Won A Grammy For Best Female Rock Performance For Her Cover Of 'Sweet Child,' But It Was Negatively Received By Many on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#17) Sheryl Crow Won A Grammy For Best Female Rock Performance For Her Cover Of 'Sweet Child,' But It Was Negatively Received By Many

    Sheryl Crow recorded a cover version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" that was used in the Adam Sandler film Big Daddy. In February 1999, Crow won the Grammy Award for best female rock vocal performance for her version of the song.

    But not everyone was a fan of Crow's interpretation. In 2011, the readers of Rolling Stone voted it the fourth-worst cover song of all time, finishing behind Miley Cyrus's cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Limp Bizkit's version of The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes," and Madonna's cover of Don McLean's classic "American Pie."

  • 'Sweet Child' Is The Only GNR Single To Hit No.1 On The 'Billboard' Hot 100 on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#12) 'Sweet Child' Is The Only GNR Single To Hit No.1 On The 'Billboard' Hot 100

    "It's So Easy," the first single off Appetite for Destruction, wasn't incredibly successful. While the album's second single, "Welcome to the Jungle," fared better, the album didn't start out selling very well.

    "Sweet Child O' Mine" was the third single released and hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, staying on the chart for 12 weeks.

    Over the course of their career, GNR has had six singles crack the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, but "Sweet Child O' Mine" is the only one to hit No. 1.

  • Duff McKagan Thought The Song Was A Joke on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#3) Duff McKagan Thought The Song Was A Joke

    Like Slash, the bassist for GNR, Duff McKagan, did not take "Sweet Child O' Mine" very seriously at first. As he later admitted to Hit Parader

    It was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, "What is this song? It's gonna be nothing. It'll be filler on the record."

    Slash was just messing around when he first wrote that lick.

  • The Band Members Were Surprised, And Not All Of Them Were Happy, When 'Sweet Child' Started Doing Well On Radio And On MTV on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#13) The Band Members Were Surprised, And Not All Of Them Were Happy, When 'Sweet Child' Started Doing Well On Radio And On MTV

    Unlike Clink, GNR did not have any expectations about "Sweet Child O' Mine" becoming a hit. "We had no idea what [the song] would do for the album," McKagan admitted. "You should have seen the... difference [in crowd reaction] before, and after, that single came out." 

    McKagan said that prior to "Sweet Child O' Mine," very few GNR fans would turn out to shows where they opened for more popular bands like Aerosmith. But "afterwards everybody was on their feet with their cigarette lighters switched on. It was amazing, night and day. It happened that quickly."

    A few weeks after "Sweet Child O' Mine" was released as their second single in the US, Appetite for Destruction hit No. 1 on Billboard's albums chart. But while Steven Adler and Rose, who called his mother to share the news, were over the moon about their success, McKagan and guitarist Izzy Stradlin were not as excited.

    Stradlin didn't think it was cool, wasn't a punk thing, to have so much success. McKagan had a similar reaction, saying, "We're a rock-and-roll band. We've never written a song for commercial purposes. We... despise that."

    Slash, meanwhile, wanted nothing more than their success, saying, "I always figured we'd just be a cult band."

  • GNR Was Accused Of Plagiarizing 'Sweet Child' From A Song By The Band Australian Crawl on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#16) GNR Was Accused Of Plagiarizing 'Sweet Child' From A Song By The Band Australian Crawl

    In the spring of 2015, Australian music website Max TV highlighted the similarities between "Sweet Child O' Mine" and a song called "Unpublished Critics" by the band Australian Crawl. "['Unpublished Critics' has] the same chugging chord progression, a similarly-sweeping lead break, the verse melody, and the elongated one-syllable vocal in the chorus," the article claims. It was quickly removed from the Max TV website.

    "Unpublished Critics" was on Australian Crawl's album Sirocco, which was released by Geffen Records in 1981, more than six years before "Sweet Child O' Mine" came out. Perhaps coincidentally, Geffen Records was also GNR's label.

    While James Reyne, the lead singer for Australian Crawl, told the Daily Mail that "it is not inconceivable" that GNR could've heard "Unpublished Critics" prior to "Sweet Child O' Mine," he did not accuse them of plagiarism. Nor did he plan to sue, saying, "I'm not about to take on the might of the [GNR] lawyers."

    Reyne told the Daily Mail that he hadn't paid much attention to "Sweet Child O' Mine" when it was released. "I didn't think 'oh my god'... I didn't really listen to the song, I was more looking at the video thinking, 'Are they stoned? Or on smack?'"

    In a 2015 interview, GNR bassist McKagan admitted that the similarities between the two songs were "pretty stunning." But he reiterated, "We didn't [copy] it from them! I swear, I never heard that song until a couple of days ago."

  • Slash Said Recording The Riff Took Him An Entire Afternoon on Random Behind Scenes Of Guns N’ Roses Hit Single ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’

    (#7) Slash Said Recording The Riff Took Him An Entire Afternoon

    Although he found writing and rehearsing "Sweet Child O' Mine" difficult, Slash was far more familiar with the tune when it came time to record the song. He still struggled, however, with perfecting the opening riff, which would come to define the album. 

    "'Sweet Child O' Mine' was easy to record, apart from the guitar intro," he said. "It took me all afternoon to time it out and be at the right place when the drums came in."

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Sweet Child o'Mine appeared in the first album Appetite for Destruction of the American rock band Guns N'Roses, it is a sweet but hard-driving love ballad. This song was released in August 1988, it was the third single of this album and became the only song of the band which topped the US singles chart. Slash initially dismissed the song because its roots were just a rope skipping exercise and a joke at the time.

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