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| Writer = | Producer = Mike Clink | Last single = "Welcome to the Jungle" (1987) | This single = "Sweet Child O' Mine" (1988) | Next single = "Paradise City" (1988) | Misc = }} "Sweet Child O' Mine" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut studio album, ''Appetite for Destruction'' (1987). Released on August 1988 as the album's third single, the song topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, becoming the band's first and only number-one single in the U.S. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1988.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1988〕 It reached number six on the UK Singles Chart, when re-released in 1989. ==Background and composition== Lead guitarist Slash has been quoted as having an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a "string skipping" exercise and a joke at the time.〔(Meaning Behind Songs - N.I. )〕 During a jam session at the band's house in the Sunset Strip,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Here Today... Gone To Hell! - Articles > The Story Behind The Song - Guns N' Roses "Sweet Child O' Mine" )〕 drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a "circus" melody while making faces at Adler. Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin asked Slash to play it again. Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan created a bassline and Adler planned a beat. In his autobiography, Slash said "within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else". Meanwhile, lead singer Axl Rose was listening to the musicians upstairs in his room and was inspired to write lyrics, which became complete by the following afternoon.〔 He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly, and declared that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration "to make sure that we'd got that heartfelt feeling."〔 On the next composing session in Burbank, the band added both a bridge and a guitar solo to "Sweet Child O' Mine". While the band was recording demos with producer Spencer Proffer, he suggested adding a breakdown at the song's end. The musicians agreed, but were not sure what to do. Listening to the demo in a loop, Axl started saying to himself, "Where do we go? Where do we go now?" and Proffer suggested that he sing that.〔 The song is composed in the key of D flat major and played in the key of D major tuned down a half step on guitars and bass (as all their songs are). The ending solo is in E flat minor harmonic key. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sweet Child o' Mine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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