You're not the only one - November Rain

• "November Rain" is a power ballad
• released as a single in June 1992
• written by lead singer Axl Rose
• It features a sweeping orchestral backing and is one of Guns N' Roses' longest songs.
• "November Rain" peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the longest song in history to enter the top ten of that chart.
• Most live performances during the Use Your Illusion tour lacked the orchestral backing of the song (the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards being the best-known exception).
• It is the longest song to reach the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100
• This song is also rated #9 in the Richter Scale best songs of all time. "November Rain" was voted #1 on the Rock 1000 2006, an annual countdown of the top 1,000 rock songs by New Zealand radio listeners. It was voted #2 on the Rock 1000 2007, being beaten out by "Back in Black" by AC/DC. The song was placed at #140 on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s. In Chile, The song was placed at #73 on Chilean radio Rock & Pop (Chilean radio)
• Slash states in his autobiography that an 18-minute version of "November Rain" was recorded at a session with guitarist Manny Charlton (of rock band Nazareth) in 1986, before the recording sessions for Appetite for Destruction began.
• Slash has said that the solo he played in the album version of the song (it is unclear which) was the same solo he played to the song when he heard it for the first time. The solo is strikingly similar to the one found in "Best Of My Love" by Japanese artist Toshitaro (1984).
• Music video is a large budget (about $1 million, including Seymour's dress) and sweeping cinematography, which won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography. It is one of the most expensive music videos ever.
• In music video For the outside shots of Slash while he is playing the first solo, Rose had originally envisioned it taking place in a "cool field" of sorts. However, 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. Coincidentally, this was the same church used in the movie Silverado.
• Mr. Hartmaier was in the church with a walkie-talkie with Slash as a helicopter circled above for the big shot. Slash asked him what he did and he replied, "I'm the production designer, "slash" art director slash prop man, slash painter, slash mad scientist. Slash quickly replied with a chuckle..."Ha ha, I'm just Slash." Mr. Hartmaier later said of working on the video, "It was the best experience of my life."
• The priest in the video, an Italian man named Gianantonio, was a friend of Rose. Unbeknownst to the band, the church used for the interior shots was where the priest had performed some of his last services, eight years prior to the shooting of the video.
• 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).
• video was voted "Best Video Clip" in Metal Edge's 1992 Readers' Choice Awards
• Before release of Use Your Illusion I, the song was first played live at Deer Creek Music Center on April 29, 1991.
• The band performed the song with Elton John on piano at the 1992 VMAs.