According to ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK:
“Nearly 30 years after it became a global smash, Guns N’ Roses‘ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” could be facing a lawsuit for plagiarism. It reportedly resembles “Unpublished Critics,” a 1981 song by the Australian Crawl, an Australian band from the early-to-mid-’80s.”
Here’s the song from Australian Crawl, and yeah, it does have some similiarity:
But as Axl Rose explained it:
“I’m from Indiana, where Lynyrd Skynyrd are considered God to the point that you ended up saying, I hate this f—ing band…And yet for ‘Sweet Child’ … I went out and got some old Skynyrd tapes to make sure that we’d got that heartfelt feeling.”
So does Skynyrd sue GNR or this bland 80s pop band from Down Under? Hmmm… – Mike