Jon Bon Jovi - Miracle

What this video is

Released in 1990 as the second single from Blaze of Glory — Jon Bon Jovi's debut solo album and the official soundtrack to Young Guns II — 'Miracle' arrived at a cultural inflection point when arena rock's commercial dominance was beginning to fragment ahead of grunge's 1991 breakthrough. The video's Western Americana visual language directly mirrors the film's frontier mythology, embedding the track within a…

Why it matters

A landmark of early-1990s cinematic rock video production, 'Miracle' exemplifies the brief but commercially potent fusion of arena rock with Hollywood soundtrack culture. Isham's direction codified a warm, location-driven Western aesthetic for rock videos that influenced the genre's visual…

The director

Wayne Isham (born December 2, 1958, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American music video and film director with over 200 career credits. A UC Santa Barbara alumnus, he cited David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' as his creative inspiration. He became the preeminent…