Toto - Holyanna

What this video is

Released in February 1985 as the third single from Toto's fifth studio album Isolation, 'Holyanna' arrived during a commercially challenging period for the band following their multi-Grammy-winning Toto IV. The video was produced at the height of MTV's narrative-video golden age, when Limelight Productions—the company Steve Barron co-founded—was the dominant force in music video production globally. The New York…

Why it matters

Represents the mature AOR/pop-rock music video form of 1984–85: a fully realized narrative-performance hybrid produced on 35mm film by the era's leading video production house. The video is a direct artifact of the Limelight Productions aesthetic—high production value, warm cinematic color, rapid…

The director

Steve Barron (born 4 May 1956, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish-British filmmaker and pioneering music video director. He began as a camera assistant on A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Duellists (1977), and Superman (1978). He co-founded Limelight Productions,…