Miami Vice Theme

Jan Hammer's masterpiece

Some will say it’s Crockett’s Theme but I prefer this. In either case, Prague-born musician Jan Hammer’s score for the tv show Miami Vice hit in a big way. The show premiered in fall 1984, with this track released as a single the following spring and went to #1 (the last track to do that until Harlem Shake in 2013).

This video is fun too, tying in the show with Hammer’s scoring. From wiki:

The music video of the theme is a mini-episode of the TV series with Hammer as a fugitive on the run from James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Throughout the majority of the video, Hammer performs the theme in front of a projector screen playing footage from the TV series – including scenes of the Vice duo chasing him. In the end of the video, he boards a helicopter and escapes from Crockett's sight. The video also shows shots of Fairlight CMI screens including the page R (sequencer) page and the waveform page.

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