Guns N’ Roses have been flooded with success since Axl Rose and Slash began sharing the stage once again on their reunion tour in 2016, now in its ninth leg. As part of their Not In This Lifetime… reunion tour, the band played 13 shows in South America in 2017, including dates in both Argentina and Brazil. The popularity of the video shifted away from the US in 2018 - with 83 percent of views coming from Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Released in 1992, the video for “November Rain” has been rapidly racking up views, with an estimated average of 560,000 views per day in 2017. Forbes also reported that the band holds the title of biggest ‘80s hit as well, with their video for “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” which has nearly 695 million views. Watch it enough, and maybe it’ll begin to make sense.According to a report by Forbes on Saturday (July 14), the “November Rain” video by Guns N’ Roses has become the first music video from the ‘90s to hit over a billion YouTube streams. But even today, November Rain stands as one of the most-played music videos of the 20th century on YouTube, with more than 940 million views. Morahan, James, and Rose were even asked to collaborate on an episode of HBO’s Tales From the Crypt. By the end of 1992, viewers had voted it their favorite video of the year. While the spot wasn’t heaped with MTV Video Music Awards praise (though it did win one, for Best Cinematography, and earn a nomination for Best Art Direction), it has aged well. I knew there was a wedding in there somewhere and I was not into the concept of the wedding." Morahan said he has "no idea" why Seymour was shot in a casket with half her face obscured by a mirror. The song itself is pretty self-explanatory, but the video is so complex. “To tell you the truth, I have no idea," Slash told The Huffington Post in 2014. No one really seems to know what happened. Though Seymour’s character appears to be elated at the reception, the video implies she commits suicide shortly after. It was the longest song ever to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 until November 2021, when surpassed by Taylor Swift's extended rerecording of 'All Too Well'. Speaking with authors Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks, Morahan described the indulgent nature of the era: “You’ve got five cameras, cranes, helicopter, this big crew.” He recalled one observer asking him, “Is this the whole video? ‘No, it’s about 27 seconds of it.’” (The video cost a then-record $1.5 million.) Song information edit 'November Rain' is the third-longest song by Guns N' Roses, behind 'Coma' (10:14) from the same album, and 'Estranged' (9:24) from Use Your Illusion II. The crew respected the band’s wishes for an increasingly epic approach to their videos by going on location to shoot a wedding ceremony between Rose and Seymour at a makeshift church in a New Mexico desert-fabricating it cost $150,000-and arranging for a concert shoot with 1500 extras Slash’s guitar solo was covered with swooping helicopter shots. Model Stephanie Seymour, Rose’s girlfriend at the time, played the bride. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Rose also enlisted friend and writer Del James to allow them to loosely adapt one of his short stories, “Without You,” about a singer haunted by the death of his girlfriend.
Rose had started writing it in 1983, with an original running time of more than 20 minutes.įor the video, which was released in February of 1992, the group hired director Andy Morahan, who had supervised two previous G N' R efforts: Don’t Cry and You Could Be Mine. Released in 1991, it broke into the Billboard top 10 and immediately entered music trivia lore as the longest song to make that list. “November Rain” was a single from the group’s Use Your Illusion I album.
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