Don't Cry

September 17, 1991

Do not Cry (English for "Do not cry ") is a hard rock ballad of the U.S. band Guns N ' Roses. She appeared on two parts of the double release Use Your Illusion I & II in different versions and it was coupled out in September 1991 as a single. The song reached high chart positions in Europe and the U.S., including number 8 in the UK and number 10 in the U.S..

Background

From the song, which was released with different text on the two albums ( the version on Use Your Illusion I was the official single ), there is also a third version. It was recorded already during the recording of the album Appetite for Destruction in 1986 and appeared as another version on the single. For the versions on Use Your Illusion took Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon and a friend of Axl Rose, the background vocals. He can also be seen in the music video.

The piece, together with the subsequent singles Estranged and November Rain a trilogy, as Rose once said. It was partly inspired by the short story Without You by Del James. The song is about a woman leaves her husband. In Making F @ $ # ing videos Rose said, the song act by a woman with whom Izzy Stradlin was a friend and the rose was also attractive, but told him that she did not want him. A little later, had Rose and Izzy Stradlin ' the song written together. The song was created in late 1984 or early 1985.

Music Video

Even to this piece a very complicated video was shot. In addition to the plot, which, inter alia, Includes relationship problems of the main character, you can see the band play on a skyscraper roof, where it is filmed from helicopter view. The video was filmed, as Izzy Stradlin ', the band had already left. Dizzy Reed wore in the video a T- shirt that said "Where's Izzy? ".

Performance

The piece was played live on most tours of the band, only at the first concerts of the Chinese Democracy Tour, it was missing.