Peter Jans

And if they didn't end up opening the back gate, we could have been stuck there most of the morning.

As it was, we eventually got home at about 4am in the morning and then got up at 5am to then go to work the next day.

Today's mnemonic is on the Guns N' Roses classic line-up band members.

So with no further ado, we will begin with a summary from Wikipedia.

Guns N' Roses is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and LA Guns merged.

When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's classic lineup consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.

The current line-up consists of Rose Slash McCaggan, guitarist Richard Fortas, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardist Dizzy Reed and Melissa Rees.

Guns N' Roses heavily toured the West Coast Club circuit their first years before embarking on the Appetite for Destruction tour.

Their debut album, Appetite for Destruction, failed to gain traction, debuting at 182 on the Billboard 200, until a year after its release when a grassroots campaign for the Welcome to the Jungle music video brought the band mainstream popularity.

Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City both became top ten singles, with Sweet Child of Mine becoming the band's only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide, including 18 million units in the United States, making it the country's best-selling debut album and 11th best-selling album.

With a stylistic mix of punk rock, blues rock and heavy metal, the band helped move mainstream rock away from the glam metal era of the mid-late 80s.

In addition, they are credited with revitalising power ballads in rock.

The next studio album, GNR Lies, combined an early EP with new acoustic songs and reached number two on the Billboard 200, sold 10 million copies worldwide and included the top five hit Patience and the controversial One in a Million.

Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion 2, recorded and released simultaneously in 1991, debuted at number 2 and number 1 on the Billboard 200 respectively, and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide.

The Illusion albums included the lead single, You Could Be Mine, covers of Live and Let Die and Knocking on Heaven's Door, and a trilogy of ballads, Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged, which featured notably high-budget music videos.

The records were supported by the Use Your Illusion Tour, a world tour that lasted from 1991 to 1993.

Their upcoming sixth studio album, Chinese Democracy, was promoted with the expansive Chinese Democracy Tour from 2001 to 2011.

With Rose failing to deliver the album on schedule, Geffen released Greatest Hits, which became the eighth longest charting album in the Billboard 200 era, reaching 631 weeks by July 2023.

The long-awaited Chinese Democracy was released in November 2008, featuring the title track as lead single.