Sweet Child o' Mine

"Sweet Child o' Mine"
1988 US vinyl issue
Single by Guns N' Roses
from the album Appetite for Destruction
B-side"It's So Easy" (live)
ReleasedJune 1988[1]
Genre
Length
  • 5:55 (album version)
  • 4:53 (single version)
LabelGeffen
Songwriter(s)Guns N' Roses
Producer(s)Mike Clink
Guns N' Roses singles chronology
"Welcome to the Jungle"
(1987) 		"Sweet Child o' Mine"
(1988) 		"Paradise City"
(1989)
Music videos
"Sweet Child o' Mine" on YouTube
"Sweet Child o' Mine" (Alternate version) on YouTube
"Sweet Child o' Mine" (Album version, music only) on YouTube
Audio sample
"Sweet Child o' Mine"

"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, released on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). In the United States, the song was released in June 1988 as the album's first single, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single. In the United Kingdom, the song was released on August 8, 1988,[7] reaching number 24 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. Re-released there in May 1989,[8] it peaked at number six.

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