Miami Vice Theme

Lore & Background

The music video of the theme is a mini-episode of the TV series with Hammer as a fugitive on the run from 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.

In Their Own Story

Instead, it chronicles the troubled production of the 2006 film, noting that seven days were lost to hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. It highlights conflicts on set, including Jamie Foxx demanding salary upgrades after winning an Academy Award for Ray and refusing to fly commercially, which led to a private jet being hired. The narrative also covers the plot of the movie itself: Alonzo Stevens' suicide after his wife was threatened with a C-4 necklace bomb, the kidnapping and critical injury of intelligence agent Trudy, and the final shootout at a Miami shipyard where Tubbs kills Yero.

Did You Know?

• Despite popular belief, it was not the last instrumental to top the Hot 100 before 2013; 'Theme from Mission: Impossible' (1996) and 'A Thousand Miles' (2002) also reached number one with minimal vocals.
• In 1986, it won Grammy Awards for 'Best Instrumental Composition' and 'Best Pop Instrumental Performance'.
• The Miami Vice soundtrack, including this piece and Glenn Frey's 'You Belong to the City', spent 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1985, though claims of it being 'the most successful TV soundtrack of all ti