Billy Joel - The River Of Dreams

What this video is

Released in July 1993, 'The River of Dreams' arrived as Billy Joel's final major pop/rock single and the lead track from what would become his last rock studio album. The song fused doo-wop, gospel, and adult contemporary pop at a moment when mainstream rock radio was rapidly fracturing under the rise of grunge and alternative. Its chart success—peaking at #3 in the US and UK and #1 in Australia, New Zealand, and…

Why it matters

Represents the apex and conclusion of Billy Joel's mainstream pop/rock output, blending gospel choir, doo-wop falsetto, and adult contemporary production in a hybrid form that bridged black American sacred music traditions with white mainstream rock. The video's naturalistic outdoor production…

The director

Andrew Douglas Morahan (born 11 August 1958) is a British commercial, film and music video director. He graduated from St Martin's College and became a central figure in the music video revolution of the late 1980s and 1990s. He won the MTV Award for Best…