‘Appetite’ At 30: The Videos

All it took was a few steps off a bus, and rock and roll was forever changed.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, we're looking back on the videos that also helped bring the band to the masses.

It would be the first time we saw Slash and his iconic top hat and the last time we saw Axl Rose with "big hair."  The piece of straw Axl had in his mouth as he got off the bus at the start of the video is simply a charming touch.

While this track was Appetite's lead single, this video for it was never released in 1987.  A supercut featuring a live recording of "It's So Easy" was, however, eventually released in 2010.

Appetite had been out for about a year before "Sweet Child o' Mine" was released as a single...and then the flood gates opened.  The album finally started to take off, and "Sweet Child o' Mine" would go on to top the Billboard Hot 100 making it the band's only number one single.

This might be one of the best music videos to capture the chaos of everything involved in a rock show.  It's perfection.

Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock news blogger.  She was born and raised in "Paradise City."