Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns n'Roses - Daniel Sugerman

Danny Sugerman has written some of the most brilliant pieces of rock biography I have ever read - his book on The Doors (based on his experience of them) is an amazing collection of insights. Being a Guns and Roses fan, and having read his work on Morrison and The Doors, I was keen to see what he made of my then favourite band (I read this bleep years ago during my teens.) This is not Sugerman's best piece, but it does give some insight into the background of the band. Most pieces on Guns and Roses have concentrated on the obvious rock and roll aspects of their lives - the drink, the sex, the tours and the music. Sugerman does go into a bit more than that, ...  Read the complete review

If you’re a Guns N’ Roses fan, I hope whoever is reading this to you isn't reading it too fast. And the book this review is about might just interest you, because it's got quite a few pictures in it. If, like me, you’re not a GNR fan, those same pictures might go some way to solving one of the two great mysteries associated with GNR. Mystery number one, of course, is where the first apostrophe in their name went; mystery number two is how they managed to achieve the enormous success they did. Neither the pictures nor anything else in the book help to solve mystery number one, at least as far as I saw before I gave up reading properly, ...  Read the complete review