Whitney Houston - How Will I Know (Live from Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston)

What this video is

Filmed on March 31, 1991, Easter Sunday, this live performance of 'How Will I Know' took place within Whitney Houston's first ever solo televised concert, held for 3,500 US servicemen and women returning from Operation Desert Storm. Broadcast live on HBO to over 50 million households, the event fused pop spectacle with post-Gulf War patriotic catharsis. Houston's rendition of a 1985 chart classic in this context…

Why it matters

This performance documents the live concert dimension of Whitney Houston's crossover pop/R&B dominance at its peak. 'How Will I Know' (originally a 1985 single and MTV breakthrough) here becomes a retrospective showcase in a live military context, illustrating how Houston's back catalogue…

The director

David Victor Mark Mallet (born 17 December 1945) is a British director of music videos and concert films. He rose to prominence in the late 1970s co-founding MGMM and became one of the most prolific and sought-after music video directors of the 1980s. His…