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Like the gorilla in the Dairy Milk advert, Matt Sorum comes in with six hits of the drum that can easily make you think it’s all going to come in now and go mental, but it doesn’t. While this is probably the most famous video of Morahan’s career, he’s worked solidly over the past three and a half decades, making videos for Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Biffy Clyro and, er, S Club 7. Very good early-’90s greenscreen work by director Andy Morahan. He’ll get his moment in the sun.īack to Axl in the church, in a more sedate brown jacket and white t-shirt, but what’s this? The walls have disappeared. If you’re worried at this point that Slash will be given short shrift by this video, don’t worry. Our first glance of Slash, coming briefly into focus before the video cuts away from his face to a closeup of his cigarette, which has jumped from his left hand to his right hand. There’s a lot of jumping about in this video, in both time and space. The candle is in the church in New Mexico, the orchestra is in the theatre in LA. The orchestra isn’t in the church with him. Look, there the inside is now, with Axl ticking another set of ivories. This church had to be transported to the New Mexico location specifically for the shoot, along with a matching interior set with walls that could be lifted in and out as required by the camera. There’s a glass atop his keyboard (along with a lighter and ashtray) that probably has some sort of exciting booze in it, but at the same time looks quite a lot like lemon squash.Ĭut to a white, wooden church in the middle of nowhere with some snazzy time-lapse clouds.
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There’s a conductor who looks a bit like Blake from Workaholics conducting a full orchestra, and backing singers making snakey shapes, and then there he is again, Axl Rose, tickling the ivories in a red jacket, red bandana and rounded sunglasses combo that not everyone could get away with, but he absolutely does. Suddenly, with a dissolve, we’re in the Orpheum Theater in LA, as an ovation-ing crowd applaud the act on stage. It feels a bit like the tablets and shirt are in the wrong order, but the thing with bedtime routines is, each to their own. So, his going to bed routine involves getting into bed, taking his tablets and then shipping his shirt off. Oh, and a sculpture-y thing of a headless statue missing a few limbs.
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He’s got quite a nice bed, hasn’t he? His bedside table contains a glass of water, a tub of some kind of (surprisingly loud) tablets and a bottle of booze, as well as an ashtray that, in outline, looks like the bell on a hotel reception desk. The story can be found in his book The Language Of Fear, which we haven’t read.Īxl Rose is recognisable even in silhouette. The video is based on a short story by Del James, a rock journalist and friend of Axl Rose’s who later became the band’s tour manager, who also inspired the videos for Don’t Cry and Estranged. Unusually, the November Rain video begins with its title. This was the early ’90s everything looked like that. What is it about this video that continues to compel people more than a quarter of a century after it came out? We watched it second-by-second to see what all the fuss was about. The nine-minute clip, dating from 1992, was at the time, one of the most expensive music videos ever made, topping a million and a half dollars thanks to helicopters, pricey locations and its all round general sense of massiveness. But not many will have watched it in quite the same way as we have, as you’re about to discover. That’s a lot of times that people have hit play and watched this thing. The video for November Rain became the first on YouTube of the pre-YouTube era to hit a billion views. Guns N’ Roses have made history many times, and did so again recently.