The stories (and the ladies) that inspired these timeless love songs

[post_page_title]Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses, 1987)[/post_page_title]
Although the lyrics in the chorus suggest that the song is about a parent speaking to their child, “Sweet Child of Mine” is in fact another love song.

Axl Rose had noticed that his bandmates had come up with a pretty cool groove, and it sounded so good that he was inspired to write lyrics about his girlfriend at the time, model Erin Everly. Now that we know he wrote it about her, it gives us a whole new understanding of the lyrics, “warm, safe place.”