Sweet Child O' Mine: Inside Legendary Rock Band Guns N' Roses' Wild Past

Included in this week’s special, airing June 12, are those nearest and dearest to the band to share their memories of Guns N’ Roses’ wild journey from obscurity on LA’s Sunset Strip to becoming the hottest rock band on the planet in the late 1980’s.

Members of the band’s production team – including video director Nigel Dick – also appear and reveal what went on behind the scenes during the filming of some of Guns N’ Roses’ most famous videos, such as ‘Sweet Child of Mine.’

“I’m sitting at my monitor and I’m watching the very first shot come through and I’m going ‘This is awful, this is absolutely dreadful,’” Nigel Dick recalls for the first-time ever in this weekend’s upcoming special.

“And then there were two girls from the record company standing over my shoulder and I could hear one of them saying to the other ‘Oh my god this is so cool,’ and at that moment you go ‘ahh that’s interesting, they’re loving it, and so we must be doing something right,’” the director quips.

The series also focuses on how Guns N’ Roses survived and overcame everything from fallouts to concert riots to drug addiction on their journey to release some of their greatest songs in the early ‘90s, including the video that promoted the eventual hit, ‘Sweet Child Of Mine.’

“We cut it together, we sent it off to MTV and lo and behold they loved it and it starts getting played, and it starts getting played and played and played until it’s literally wall-to-wall play,” Nigel Dick adds.