Question: It was this day in Rock History in 1988, this debut album went to No.1 in the US, after spending 57 weeks on the chart and selling over 5 million copies. What was it?

Answer: It was Appetite for Destruction from Guns N’ Roses. Worldwide sales now stand in excess of 28 million and the album is the best-selling debut album of all-time in the US, beating Boston’s debut album Boston, which has gone 17x platinum.