Guns N' Roses Accused Of Stealing 'Sweet Child O' Mine'
. The publication points out that "Sweet Child O' Mine' has 'the same chugging chord progression, a similarly-sweeping lead break, the verse melody, and the elongated one-syllable vocal in the chorus" as Australian Crawl's song, which went to No. 1 in Australia. Australian Crawl broke up in 1986, a year before Guns N' Roses recently Appetite For Destruction, which featured the track in question, but as COS notes, both albums were released in the United States on Geffen. Funnily enough, Australian Crawl's singer James Reymar has acknowledged the similarities between the tracks before, but doesn't seem interested in getting into court for this. So no, we probably won't have a "Blurred Lines" level lawsuit anytime soon. Instead Reymar seems to be leaning in to the whole thing, even playing "Sweet Child O' Mine" live from time to time. Check out both songs here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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