A look behind the scenes at the making of the video for the song "Estranged" from Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion album, giving fans an up close and intimate look at the band when it was near the peak of its popularity. Inludes footage of the Axl, Slash and the rest of the bandmembers hard at work in the studio, as well as in some of their more relaxed moments.
Production
Most expensive music video ever made at the time—$4M of hubris
Direction
Morahan somehow wrangled Axl's dolphin vision into coherence
Director
Andrew Morahan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The dolphin footage required Axl to get scuba certified; he insisted on no stunt double. The band was essentially broken up during filming.
This trilogy marked the last gasp of rock's blockbuster music video era before grunge made such excess embarrassing. Axl never finished the planned fourth installment.
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