In 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N' Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and album seemed a complete fit with my mind, beliefs, personality, life and ambitions: the songs told a tale of travelling to a new life; nostalgia for better times and the search for more; partying excess; alienation from society; getting into trouble and paranoia.
The band seemed like the 1980s version of Jack Kerouac's beats, who had inspired my travel ambitions with stories about their frenetic trips across the states to California in the 1950s....
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In 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N' Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and album ...
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Al Qaeda bombers have cited UK and US foreign policy and the western medias Islamaphobia as excuses for their bombing attacks in the twenty-first ce...
