Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

What this video is

Released in October 1989 as the lead single from Bolton's sixth studio album Soul Provider, this video arrived at a definitive inflection point in his career — transitioning him from behind-the-scenes songwriter to certified pop superstar. The single became the first number-one hit of the 1990s on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Bolton the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The video's restrained, domestic…

Why it matters

Represents a canonical artifact of the adult contemporary ballad video format at its commercial apex. The production embodies the genre's visual vocabulary — intimate lighting, performance-to-camera, narrative vignettes — and documents the moment Bolton's songwriter identity became subsumed by his…

The director

Greg Gold is credited as director of the 1989 Michael Bolton music video for 'How Am I Supposed to Live Without You,' confirmed across IMDb (tt8764380), IMVDb, and FilmAffinity. Wikipedia and related fan wikis additionally list Philip Rose as co-director.…