10 Ways Guns N' Roses 'Appetite For Destruction' Changed the World

By Dan Epstein

In retrospect, it's safe to say that the world was not ready for Appetite for Destruction.

There was nothing quite like it on the radio or the charts on July 21st, 1987, the day Guns N' Roses' game-changing debut album first hit the streets. Sure, Whitesnake, Poison, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe were all firmly ensconced in the Top 10 at the time, but only the slick Sunset Strip sleaze of the Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls came close to the feral sound and street-smart attitude of Appetite, and its unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, booze and rock & roll.

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