Complex sentence: Guns N'Roses was Fuqua's "first influence": when they released "Appetite for Destruction" (1987), while he was in seventh grade, he knew he wanted to be a musician.
Split into simpler sentences: Guns N'Roses was Fuqua's "first influence". When they released "Appetite for Destruction" (1987), while he was in seventh grade, he knew he wanted to be a musician.