Culture Club - It's A Miracle

What this video is

Released in early 1984 at the absolute commercial peak of the Second British Invasion, 'It's a Miracle' arrived as Culture Club's sixth consecutive UK top-five hit and charted at #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The video's Monopoly-board concept literalises the song's meditation on the randomness of fame — a theme with genuine weight given the band's meteoric rise from 1982. Co-directed by Steve and Zelda Barron,…

Why it matters

Represents the apex of UK New Wave's theatrically-conceived studio promo, combining narrative concept (board-game career allegory), performance spectacle, and archival self-quotation. Sits at the intersection of soul-pop, Motown-influenced songwriting, and androgynous New Romantic visual grammar,…

The director

Steve Barron (b. 4 May 1956, Dublin) is an Irish-British filmmaker and a defining architect of the early MTV era, whose credits include Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' (1983), A-ha's 'Take On Me' (1985), and Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' (1985). He…