Steve Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. He has been an enormous influence on generations of music makers. A key membe…
Steve Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. He has been an enormous influence on generations of music makers. A key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Steve Winwood is a Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood No. 33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
In 1988, he released the smash hit "Holding On", the last of 4 number one hits on the Adult Contemporary Charts and peaking at #11 on Billboard's Hot 100. The music video (directed by David Fincher) opens with an unidentified photographer taking out camera equipment. The rest of the video is shown in motion, with flashes indicating candid snapshots of various people from different walks of life: people walking on the street, patrons of a diner, women in formal dress, a dinner suggesting an underworld boss and his girlfriend (although they pose for the camera, others cover their faces or move to leave the table), a soldier just home from the war (presumed to be World War II) embracing his son, and an elderly couple in high spirits on a park bench. Interspersed with these images are occasional scenes of Winwood playing solitaire in his room, then going out for a walk, having his shoes shined, having coffee at a diner, then finally returning to his room and lying on his bed as the sun shines through his window.
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