Guns N’ Roses played Wembley Stadium on their 2025 European tour, a set of more than three hours with new drummer Isaac Carpenter behind them.
Guns N’ Roses, whose Appetite for Destruction is the best-selling debut album in American history, played Wembley Stadium on Thursday 26 June 2025. The night was part of their 2025 European and Middle East tour.
The band formed in Los Angeles in March 1985, drawing on members of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. Axl Rose sang, with Slash on lead guitar, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.
Appetite for Destruction arrived in 1987 and sold more than 30 million copies. It gave the band their only US number one, “Sweet Child o’ Mine”. The twin Use Your Illusion albums followed in 1991, and the video for “November Rain” later passed one billion views on YouTube.
At Wembley the set ran three hours and fifteen minutes, before a crowd reported at 80,000. Isaac Carpenter, the band’s new drummer, played beside Rose, Slash and McKagan.
Between the hits came early and rarely played songs, among them “Reckless Life”, “Anything Goes” and “Dead Horse”. The night closed with “Paradise City”.
Rival Sons, a rock band formed in Long Beach, California, in 2009, opened the night.