![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “YOU’RE WELCOME, AXL!” That’s what I would say to Guns N’ Roses frontman/ enfant terible Axl Rose, if I ever saw him. I’d holler it at him from across a crowded city square if I had to. He would need to know that I contributed to the one billion (and counting) YouTube views for GnR’s music video for “November Rain.” That makes it the to top one billion views. For those of you needing a refresher course, “November Rain” was the third single released off of Guns N’ Roses’ album Use Your Illusion I, which was itself a two-part album that represented the apex of GnR’s time spent as king of the rock world. They were massive MTV superstars, and the Use Your Illusion era was their blank-check period, where they cranked up the bombast to eleven and let Axl Rose’s ego and Slash’s guitar solos run wild. “November Rain” the song was by turns contemplative and operatic, packed with background choruses and guitar solos and a 90-second instrumental overture to begin the song. Rose and his bandmates had nothing less iconic than “Bohemian Rhapsody” as its style inspiration. Guns N' Roses The “November Rain” music video was itself the middle part of a trilogy, with “Don’t Cry” before it and “Estranged” (from Use Your Illusion II) after it, and if you’re thinking that sounds like a narrative video, then you are in luck. The late ’80s/early ’90s were the golden age of story-based music videos, and “November Rain” was a damn doozy. After meeting cute with his girlfriend (played by his IRL girlfriend, model Stephanie Seymour), Rose marries her in “November Rain,” a decadent ceremony featuring a mini-skirt wedding dress (hers), a claw pinky ring (his), and the most tongue ever on display in a wedding kiss.
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