ROCK GROUPIE
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.
FREAKED
“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,