Watch Rock Historians Recoil as Axl Rose’s 1988 “One in a Million” Controversy Resurfaces, Revealing the Slur-Filled Track Guns N’ Roses Cut in 2018. In 1988, Guns N’ Roses sparked a firestorm with “One in a Million,” an acoustic track by Axl Rose containing vicious racial and homophobic slurs. Decades of backlash and public feuds followed, leading to the ultimate erasure: in 2018, the band took the unprecedented step of omitting the toxic song entirely from their official Appetite for Destruction anniversary box set, silencing the track forever….
Rock history has never been gentle, but few moments hit with the same explosive force as the resurfacing of Guns N’ Roses’ most infamous song […]
