Singer Not Taking Guns N' Roses 'Sweet Child' Theft Claim Seriously ::Guns N' Roses News ::antiMusic.com

Singer Not Taking Guns N' Roses 'Sweet Child' Theft Claim Seriously

05/15/2015
. James Reyne, the singer of the now defunct band Australian Crawl, has responded to the recent claims that Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child Of Mine" sounds very similar to his band's "Unpublished Critics" which was released half a decade earlier.

"I'm not about to take on the might of the Guns N' Roses lawyers," Reyne said to Australia's Daily Mail (via Ultimate Classic Rock.) "It is not inconceivable that there are similarities between the two songs. It's also not inconceivable that they wouldn't have been aware of certain Australian songs."

Reyne went on to recall that the Guns N' Roses song didn't make much of an impression on him the first time he heard it. "I didn't think, 'Oh my God.' I didn't really listen to the song," he said.

"I was more looking at the video thinking, 'Are they stoned? Or on smack?' I was probably more interested in their drug habits. I really wasn't that aware of Guns N' Roses. It just didn't cross my radar because I was listening to other things." Read the UCR report for more here.

Guns N' Roses Music, DVDs, Books and more

Guns N' Roses T-shirts and Posters

Share this article