MTV Summer Series: Guns N’ Roses

This week’s episode is about Guns N' Roses and the woman who inspired a trilogy of music videos from the band's 1990 double album Use Your Illusion. Erin Everly was Axl’s girlfriend, muse, and eventual wife, then ex-wife. She is half forgotten, or at least conflated with the woman who played her in these videos, Stephanie Seymour. But Erin is a goddess in her own right, and her magic lit up my imagination when I first laid eyes on the rock epic mini movie that she co-created just by existing.