Axl in a wedding dress, Slash in a desert church, and enough ego to fuel a small nation.
A look behind the scenes at the making of the video for the song "Don't Cry" from Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion album from when the band was near the peak of its popularity. Inludes footage of the bandmembers hard at work in the studio, as well as in some of their more relaxed moments.
Direction
Morahan juggling Axl's vision and the label's budget.
Production
The sheer absurdity of building desert churches in soundstages.
Director
Andrew Morahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Don't Cry' video cost nearly $1 million to produce in 1991, making it among the most expensive music videos ever made at that time.
This captures the exact moment when music videos shifted from promotional tools to mini-films with budgets that could bankrupt small studios.
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