When Guns N’ Roses graced the most recent cover of Rolling Stone to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their landmark album Appetite for Destruction, it obviously wasn’t the band’s first time on our top page. Click here for three of their previous RS covers, including their January 1991 one where Slash revealed, “Axl gets very adamant about expressing himself, and his lyrics are very direct. He’s very honest, and he’s got his reasons. … I don’t regret doing ‘One in a Million,’ I just regret what we’ve been through because of it.” They were back on the cover in September 1991, where Slash observed, “There will be a point when this will all finish, the tour will end, the album will die and I’ll keep jamming with cats I dig playing with. But then we’ll just go do another record. I don’t think anything’s really going to break us up.” Seven months later, Axl Rose granted us one of the most revealing interviews of his career, where he admitted, “I’ve done regressive therapy all the way back to the point of conception … My father was a pretty ****ed up individual. I didn’t care much for him when I was born.” To get the big picture, read the full stories.


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