"At a time when rock had sold its balls to the butchers -when Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were still considered ‘heavy’- Guns N’ Roses came along and showed us how it should be done, putting booze and drugs back on the menu at a time when rock's glitterati were still babbling on inanely about gyms and mineral water. This was rock without the condom on and soon almost everybody was infected."