”Purely thanks to rock ‘n’ roll instinct I was walking past the lounge at the folks’ place and I heard this most astounding guitar riff. A sort of arpeggiated D major chord thing. I looked at the TV and saw a guitarist, all hair and top hat, in a leather jacket, Gibson Les Paul slung low playing this amazing riff. The whole video was in black and white, and the other guitarist, jet black hair, smoke dangling, black mirror shades, looked like he was straight out of the Stones. Next thing it’s Axl, bandana, sunglasses on top of his head, dancing like a girl, effeminate hand gestures, swaying like he is at the scout hall disco dancing to Hall and Oates. Fuck! Not this oke. Then he starts singing. I had my ‘Saul who became Paul getting blinded on the road to Damascus’ moment. I saw the light. I had not realised just how great this band actually were”. The Story of Rock and Roll – James Daubeney