Appetite for Destruction, Guns N' Roses' debut album, was released 34 years ago today, on July 21, One track on the album features the genuine sounds of a woman orgasming over a pulsating guitar solo. So it was perfect timing when band groupie Adriana Smith arrived at their New York recording studio furious - and hungry for revenge. Adriana, then a year-old stripper and aspiring actress, had been in a year-long relationship with GnR drummer Steven Adler, but he had dumped her the day prior. Seeing an opportunity, Axl asked her if she wanted to fulfil a dream of his to feature real-life sex sounds on their track Rocket Queen. Decades later she spoke to the Mirror about recording the steamy sound effects. Had you ever noticed the sex noises in Rocket Queen before? Tell us in the comments below!

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Guns N’ Roses: the story behind the song ‘Rocket Queen’
The song is notable for incorporating moans from a woman, Adriana Smith, who was recorded having sexual intercourse with the band. I wrote this song for this girl who was gonna have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive for a while.
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One of the best things about classic rock is the stories that come from it. Many songs have hidden meanings and secrets that are revealed over time. Smith had been dating Adler for approximately a year. In an interview available on YouTube , Smith talks about what led to her ultimately cheating on Adler. She was upset and went to hang out with the rest of the band at the studio.
On that warm weekend evening in the spring of , engineer Vic Deyglio had set up a top-of-the-line vocal microphone to capture the sounds of Rose and Smith having sex — and at one point, he had to dash into the booth to adjust the mike as they went at it. Before they had even finished their first album, the lives of the five band members had become a dark cartoon of indiscriminate sex, property damage, booze and hard drugs. Released on July 21st, , Appetite for Destruction went on to sell well over 15 million copies in this country alone, becoming one of the best-selling debuts ever. The album looked both forward and backward: The punky rawness of its sound and the pained artistry of its lyrics made it a bridge between commercial Eighties hard rock and the alternative music of the next decade. It could be seen as the last great rock record made totally by hand. We wanted to be like Aerosmith, Kiss, Zeppelin — bands like that.