Flashback: Night Ranger’s Masterpiece ‘Sister Christian’

By Doug Podell

August 26, 2019

The beloved video for “Sister Christian,” aired on MTV constantly in the summer of 1984. Directed by Mary Guido and filmed at San Rafael High School in California, the clip features a woman on the cusp of her high school graduation, donning a cap and gown before she eventually runs down the school’s stairs and jumps into a car with her friends.

Drummer and vocalist Kelly Keagy wrote the song after visiting his teenage sister Christy in Eugene, Oregon,

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