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In August 1987, Guns N’ Roses arrived in Winnipeg, Canada, as the opening act for The Cult, still a virtually unknown band outside the club circuit. Before the concert, Axl Rose and Slash stopped by the Blue Note Café, where they ended up taking the stage to play “Heartbreak Hotel” together. That visit captured the band in one of its earliest moments. The photograph, published by the Winnipeg Free Press, shows Axl with a young woman during that visit. Just a few months later, Appetite for Destruction would begin to transform Guns N’ Roses into one of the most important rock bands of the late 1980s. This image, therefore, belongs to the era when they could still appear almost anonymously at a local bar.