2016.06.12 - Sunday Mirror - Interview with Adriana Smith

Exclusive: Guns N' Roses recorded my sex moans onto Rocket Queen and I wasn't faking

Groupie Adriana Smith says she went into the studio with Axl Rose for the infamous track – and recalls other wild times with the rebellious rockers

By James Desborough

Guns N’ Roses groupie Adriana Smith has lifted the lid on her steamy role on the infamous track Rocket Queen and admitted Yes, Yes, Yes!... her orgasmic moans are for real.

Adriana explained how she and legendary rocker Axl Rose came to romp in a New York studio for two hours as sound engineers recorded her every sigh.

The 49-year-old kept quiet about her “contribution” for years.

But as a reformed GN’R prepare to take America by storm again, Adriana revealed new details of the romp – and a bizarre threesome involving guitarist Slash – in an exclusive chat with the Sunday Mirror.

Before spilling the beans on her Big Apple grapple with Axl, Adriana told how she first hooked up with him in Los Angeles, while working as a stripper at the Seventh Veil club.

At the time she was dating the band’s drummer Steven Adler .

But when he took another girl out Adriana exacted swift revenge by bedding Rose – only for Adler to return and catch them at it, with an unwitting Slash also in the bed.

Adriana said: “I lived around the corner from Canter’s Deli, where the band would hang out. Axl showed up and it was just one of those things. We were just fascinated with each other. Steven was out with another girl.

“We were all getting really wasted, so I felt I was going to try and get revenge on Steven. Axl was all in for it and we started having sex.

“Slash was all passed out and we dragged him into the bed. It was one of those things. A bit naughty. Slash wasn’t really there. He was passed out on the bed next to us.

“Steven walked in and caught us in bed together. He freaked out and was holding my hand. Axl was talking and saying things like, ‘You wanna join in, buddy?’ Steven wasn’t happy and stormed out.”

Adriana threw Steven out of her ­apartment, but they later patched up their differences.

In late 1986 she flew to New York to spend time with the band as they finished mixing their debut album Appetite For Destruction, which would go on to sell 30 million copies and featured Rocket Queen and other classics like Sweet Child O’ Mine.

Adriana said Slash urged her not to flirt with Axl again as it would upset Steve.

Adriana – then aged 19 – recalled: “Slash had warned me, ‘don’t antagonise Steven’. But Axl was naughty, even though he had this girlfriend and I was seeing Steven.”

She told how she and Axl left a bar together and headed for Media Sound Studios after the singer convinced her to help on Rocket Queen.

Adriana said: “It was all craziness. He said something to me about art and making this song and I was drunk.

“We cleared everyone out of the studio. Dimly lit, there were cushions in the booth, so no one could really see in. There were two guys in one booth and we were in another and I think they got a couple hours of recording of us having sex.

“It wasn’t really romantic, passionate or hot. It was kinda contrived, but they got some good stuff out of it. I don’t know where those recordings have gone and I don’t have a copy of them.”

Adriana said that at the time she feared the tapes would spell the end of her aspiring acting career. To this day she hasn’t made a penny from the track.

She added: “I was super embarrassed at the time. What if my Mom hears this? What if my Dad hears this? I am not a porn star. I was a stripper, who wanted to be an actress.

“I was sure that was not going to be good for the cause. It was sort of in my head that I had made this large mistake.”

Adriana came clean to Steven after Axl insisted her credit appeared on the album as Adriana “Sex Machine” Smith.

It inevitably led to tensions between the bandmates. Adriana said: “Steven is the opposite of Axl.

“Axl is like the moody artist, while Steven is the meet-and-greet person, very sociable. I think both were incredibly jealous of each other.”

Adriana – now a divorced mum and with a career as a fashion stylist – continued her affair with Axl.

“It was a kinda on-and-off thing. Not dating, but we hung out,” she said.

Astonishingly, Adriana said Axl wanted her to go and live with him and his girlfriend Erin Everly, who he married in 1990, to show her how to satisfy him in bed.

“He actually wanted me to move in with him, so that I could teach Erin how to have sex,” Adriana boasted. “Obviously, I turned him down, and I can’t imagine she would’ve let that happen.”

As well as Guns N’ Roses, Adriana used to mix with stars like Thomas Dolby, Power Station, Yoko Ono , Andy Warhol and Tom Waits in New York in the 1980s.

Her revelations come as Axl, 54, has been performing as AC/DC’s frontman and is preparing for the upcoming GN’R tour of the US, starting in a fortnight.

The singer this week revealed he has been playing new material to bandmates Slash – real name Saul Hudson, 50 – and guitarist Michael “Duff” McKagan, 52.

Adler, 51, was fired from the band for his heroin addiction in 1990 and a string of other stars have come and gone.

But Axl and Slash ​have put their long-running feud behind them to headline ​the Not In This Lifetime tour, with hopes of a Wembley date in the late summer.​

Adriana claims their return is fuelled by money rather than a desire to celebrate 30 years since the band’s formation.

She still harks back to the days when she fraternised with the band and their co-writer Aaron West Arkeen, who died from a drugs overdose aged just 36.

She reminisced: “Rocket Queen was what I was most famous for, but I see myself as a friend to them after all those crazy times. I am still friends with Slash. Even though everything got messed up with the band we stayed in touch.

“But that was a different time and I could never see myself with any of the band now – it was a moment in time when the stars aligned like that. ​I have tr​ied to reach ​out to ​Axl​ through people, but have never had a response.

“I still care about him​. I valued our friendship​, still do.”

She would like to see more of the band’s old faces involved in the tour, adding: “From a fan’s perspective a true reunion would be great.

“It would be best for everybody if they could put aside old hurts, old pains and go on stage together because this could be their last time. They could do with a therapist – to exorcise their demons.”

While GN’R fans lap up the band’s latest reincarnation, Adriana revealed her other hit with the band.

She recalled: “I remember a party in LA. Slash kept daring me to punch a girl he, Steven and Axl had slept with. So I went up and punched her square in the face. This giant fight broke out. It was crazy. The cops came, Slash got arrested and his top hat got lost.”

But the rocker was not without his trademark titfer for long. Adriana added: “All the stripper girls paid his bail and got him out of jail... and bought him another hat.”

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