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"Axl Rose was working on &amp;#x201C;November Rain&amp;#x201D; before Guns N&amp;#x2019; Roses even formed, back in 1983 when he was still part of L.A. Guns. He knew he was onto something big but kept revising the song until 1991 when Guns N&amp;#x2019; Roses recorded the nearly nine-minute version that made it onto Use Your Illusion I. The song was inspired in part by Elton John, and Rose told Rolling Stone, &amp;#x201C;We&amp;#x2019;re competing with rock legends and we&amp;#x2019;re trying to do the best we can to possibly be honored with a position like that.&amp;#x201D; The recorded version features two guitar solos, a string arrangement and background vocals from Blind Melon frontman Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug OD just a few years later."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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