Cinderella - Coming Home

What this video is

Released as the third single from 'Long Cold Winter' (Mercury Records, July 1988), 'Coming Home' arrived at a cultural inflection point where hair metal's dominance on MTV was beginning to be contested by an emerging blues-rock authenticity movement. The song peaked at #20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and the video received MTV rotation in early 1989. Cinderella frontman Tom Keifer consciously steered the album…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the late-80s power ballad genre's blues-rock crossover moment. 'Coming Home' demonstrates how glam metal acts used MTV ballad videos to broaden commercial appeal and signal artistic maturity. The video's understated visual language — no pyrotechnics, no fantasy staging — marks a…

The director

Chris Painter is a music video director whose credits include work for Queensrÿche, Tesla, Cinderella, Rush, and Mötley Crüe. Marc E. Reshovsky (1957–2009) was an ASC cinematographer and director born in Los Angeles. He studied film at UCLA, returned to L.A.…