"Sweet Child o' Mine" | ||||
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![]() 1988 US vinyl issue | ||||
Single by Guns N' Roses | ||||
from the album Appetite for Destruction | ||||
B-side | "It's So Easy" (live) | |||
Released | June 1988[1] | |||
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Label | Geffen | |||
Songwriter(s) | Guns N' Roses | |||
Producer(s) | Mike Clink | |||
Guns N' Roses singles chronology | ||||
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"Sweet Child o' Mine" on YouTube | ||||
"Sweet Child o' Mine" (Alternate version) on YouTube | ||||
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"Sweet Child o' Mine" |
"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, released on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987). In the United States, the song was released in June 1988 as the album's first single, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and becoming the band's only US number-one single. In the United Kingdom, the song was released on August 8, 1988,[7] reaching number 24 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. Re-released there in May 1989,[8] it peaked at number six.