Guns N’ Roses retired “One in a Million” after performing it only twice, amid controversy over its racial slurs, homophobic language and far-right sentiments. The 1988 song’s offensiveness drew particular criticism because the band had a large, young audience and released it during their rapid rise to fame.

The track appeared on the hugely successful *Lies* EP, which sold around five million copies, and was later removed from its reissue. Although Axl Rose defended artistic freedom and Slash said he regretted how the song had been perceived rather than recording it, the band stopped performing it after shows in October 1987 and January 1988; Duff McKagan later said it was removed because people had “misinterpreted” it.