SPIN >> May 2010 >> 25th Anniversary Issue
the 100 Moments that ROCKED our worldSome are historical milestones. Some are quieter turning points whose significance wouldn't be known for years. Some just kinda felt right. Hey, let's see you make sense of 25 years' worth of pop-culture tumult.
Photo credit: IAN PALMER/RETNA Uk008 GUNS N' ROSES ARRIVEOCTOBER 1987: Immortalized in the opening shot of the "Welcome to the Jungle" video, soundtracked by that riff and that lupine howl, W. Axl Rose's re-creation of his fabled 1982 arrival in Hollywood from Indiana was a most rude introduction. One year, five million copies of
Appetite for Destruction, and countless defiled women and whiskey bottles later, the band personified that archetypal image's best-case scenario. Then Axl got mad at us.
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