Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

“Welcome to the Jungle” – Single by Guns N’ Roses from the album Appetite for Destruction, released September 28, 1987.

This song is about Los Angeles. It exposes the dark side of the city many people encounter when they go there to pursue fame. Guns N’ Roses knew this side of the city well: in 1985, they lived in a place on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles that they called “Hell House.” The house was often filled with drugs, alcohol and groupies.

Axl Rose wrote the lyrics when he was in Seattle, which gave him some perspective on the size of Los Angeles.

When this was released as a single in 1987, it charted in the UK but flopped in America. It finally became a hit in the US when they re-released it in October 1988 after “Sweet Child O’ Mine” hit #1.

Geffen Records was having a hard time selling the video to MTV. David Geffen made a deal with the network, and the video was aired only one time around 5:00AM on a Sunday morning. As soon as the video was aired, the networks received numerous calls from people wanting to see the video again.

This song was used in the 1988 Clint Eastwood movie The Dead Pool – the band made a cameo in the film.

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