Guns n roses biography documentary review

It was with some trepidation that I approached the BBC’s The Most Dangerous Band In The World: The Story of Guns ‘n’ Roses (TMDBITW).

And that had less to do with its unwieldy long name and more to do with my preconceptions; it seemed unlikely there would be anything new to say about G’n’R and the documentary seemed like just another plug for the ‘ reunion ’.

Nevertheless, the minute-long documentary that was released on 5 February on the UK’s BBC Four merited one watch, for curiosity’s sake.

TMDBITW starts off much like VH1’s Behind the Music series with a montage of dramatic quotes from the five founder members — W Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Steven Adler and Duff McKagan — and Adler’s successor Matt Sorum, and the former Geffen Records A&R executive who first signed the band, Tom Zutaut.

However, unlike VH1’s documentaries, this