Rocket Queen

"Rocket Queen" is the closing song of Appetite for Destruction, the debut album of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. A credit in the booklet for Appetite for Destruction reads "Barbi (Rocket Queen) Von Grief", implying that she was "this girl" Rose mentions in the quote. Slash stated in his autobiography that he and Duff McKagan wrote the main riff to "Rocket Queen" when they first got together, before either of them had joined Hollywood Rose or ... more
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