Guns N’ Roses score a pair of top 40 hits (with “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Welcome to the Jungle”) and albums (with Appetite for Destruction and Greatest Hits) in the U.K.

Guns 'N Roses' debut album took a bit to catch on, but once it did, there was no turning back. They were the definitive hard rock band of the 1980s, fusing glam metal with the hard-nosed rock and roll many felt went extinct earlier in the decade.