Chicago - I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love

What this video is

Released May 1988, this video sits at the apex of Chicago's late-period commercial renaissance, when the band had fully pivoted from their jazz-rock origins to adult-contemporary dominance. The single — written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond, two of the era's most commercially ubiquitous songwriters — reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, anchoring the Chicago 19 album alongside the subsequent No. 1 hit 'Look…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of late-80s adult-contemporary soft rock, this video documents Chicago's successful commercial reinvention under outside songwriting collaboration. Diane Warren's compositional fingerprint — soaring melodic hooks, yearning lyrical premise — is paired with a visually inventive…

The director

Primetime Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor, director, and producer. Boyington ran his own visual effects studio and commercial production company for over 25 years, directing music videos and commercials while supervising VFX for film and…