"Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses might be a ripoff? Say it ain't so!

A website called Max TV recently compared the GNR hit to a random song from 1981 by a soft rock band from Australia called Australian Crawl.  The song is called "Unpublished Critics" and they sound really similar. 

"Sweet Child O' Mine" didn't come out until 1987, but Axl Rose, Slash and Izzy Stradlin have a detailed story about how they created it. According to Max TV, a member of Australian Crawl said he noticed the similarities and he's cool with it.

Compare the clips in the video below and let us know what you think in the comments section!

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