Wet Wet Wet - Broke Away

What this video is

Released 27 November 1989, 'Broke Away' arrived as the second single from Wet Wet Wet's third studio album Holding Back the River, which peaked at #2 on the UK Albums Chart. The single charted at #19 in the UK and #9 in Ireland. The release sat within a crowded late-1989 UK pop landscape shaped by the tail end of Stock Aitken Waterman dominance and the emerging crossover of soul-influenced guitar bands. Wet Wet Wet…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of late-1980s British blue-eyed soul and adult-contemporary pop at a moment when the genre was transitioning from synth-heavy production toward more organic, string-laden arrangements. The video's understated realism and performance-led format embodies the visual grammar…

The director

UK-based music video director active from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s. Credits span a broad range of the British pop and rock canon, including The Jam: Town Called Malice (1982), Eurythmics: Love Is a Stranger (1982), Rick Astley: Together Forever…