Guns N' Roses: November Rain

The video, directed by Andy Morahan, portrays Rose marrying his then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour, inter-cut with a live performance in a theater. It is one of the most expensive music videos ever. Slash is prominently featured in some of the video's most memorable scenes, including a sequence of helicopter shots swooping around him as he plays the first guitar solo and a later scene where he plays the third solo while standing on Rose's piano onstage. The video for "November Rain" uses the full version of the song as opposed to an abridged version. Since the video was shot in winter, there were no good-looking fields around, and eventually the band decided to use a church in New Mexico. As stated at the end of the video, "November Rain" is based on the short story "Without You" by Del James, available in his 1995 book The Language of Fear. The story concerns a rock star grieving over the death of his on-and-off-again girlfriend, who had committed suicide (inspired by Rose's troubled relationship with Erin Everly).