Friday, November 1, 2013

Musical Interlude: November Rain (1991-2)

Guns 'N' Roses' classic ballad, "November Rain", was issued on 1991's "Use Your Illusion 1", and was released as a video single one year later, with the song peaking at #3 on the Hot 100. For a change, W. Axl Rose is at the piano. If you didn't think they could top this, well, they did, at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, when Elton John joined Rose for a piano duet on "Rain", which became an instant classic all by itself.

Sadly, "Rain" would be GNR's last top 10 hit, as none of the singles from "The Spaghetti Incident?", released the following year, cracked the upper echelon of the charts.

From GNR's VEVO channel, here's "November Rain":

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