Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart 1983 Video HQ
What this video is
Released in October 1983, 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' marked Yes's dramatic commercial reinvention under a restructured lineup built around guitarist Trevor Rabin and produced by Trevor Horn. The song reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 — the band's first and only chart-topper — and became an emblematic case study of how MTV could resurrect and reframe legacy rock acts for a younger demographic. The video, made…
Why it matters
A landmark document of prog-rock's MTV-era mutation into arena pop, demonstrating that a band's visual identity could be wholesale redesigned via the music video format. The Thorgerson/Powell surrealist approach — narrative-driven, symbolically rich, cinematically ambitious — stood apart from the…
The director
Storm Thorgerson (28 Feb 1944–18 Apr 2013) co-founded Hipgnosis with Aubrey 'Po' Powell in 1968, becoming the pre-eminent graphic designers of 1970s rock album art — most famously Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. In 1982–83, Thorgerson and Powell…
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