For the rest of the album, he used a Gibson Les Paul copy through a modified Marshall amplifier on the same settings for each song.
The song is about a friend of the band, a girl named Michelle Young who is thanked in the Appetite for Destruction cover sleeve.
[4] Several members of the band expressed concern over this version of the song, especially Slash, fearing it would upset Young.
She liked the song and the attention it brought to her, and was especially pleased with its honesty, most notably regarding her drug addiction, the death of her mother and her father's work in the pornography industry,[5] all of which are mentioned within the first verse.
During the 2006 New York and European tours, Axl Rose shared the vocal duties with former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach.