Tonight’s featured band has a hit in which the guitarist says are influences from Jeff Beck, Cream and Zeppelin and even  Manfred Mann's version of ‘Blinded by the Light’ and Gerry Rafferty's  ‘ Baker Street" Can you guess the song??

The song is ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ from Guns and Roses and Slash who wrote the guitar riff  told Rolling Stone magazine: "It's a combination of influences. From Jeff Beck, Cream and Zeppelin to stuff you'd be surprised at: the solos in Manfred Mann's version of ‘Blinded by the Light’ and Gerry Rafferty's ‘Baker Street’

‘Sweet child of Mine’ was also a song that almost wasn’t. Axl Rose loved the riff and wrote the lyrics for his then girlfriend, Slash on the other hand didn’t like it at all and still considers it the worst Guns and Roses song. Boo Hiss.

For the record, in true Rock 'n Roll form Axl married the girl and they divorced a month later.

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