Rocket Queen
Axl
"It was a sexual song and it was a wild night in the studio. This girl we know was dancing; everyone wasa getting real excited. The night coulda gotten really explosive, lots of trouble for everyone, and I thought wait a minute, how can we make this porductive. And this is what we got."
[An Interview With The Gunners, Hit Parader - March 1988]

Izzy
"I wrote this song for this girl who was gonna have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive for a while. The last part of the song is my message to this person, or anybody else who can get something out of it. It's like there's hope and a friendship note at the end of the song. For that song there was also something I tried to work out with various people - a recorded sex act. It was somewhat spontaneous but premediated; something I wanted to put on the record. /../ All these qoutes were Axl's 'cause I wasn't there."
[An Interview With The Gunners, Hit Parader - March 1988]