[5] It also reached the top spot of the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the US, in an extended version.

[5] The song was played in the first episode of the long-running BBC One medical drama Casualty on 6 September 1986.

The sci-fi-themed music video was directed by Maurice Phillips[7] and it was shot at Durdle Door in Dorset, England, and features an alien rider on horseback riding up the coast to a bar built inside a cave.

He tries to attract the attention of a female alien inside the cave, and after he shoots her partner with a laser, they ride off on the horse together at the end.

In 2002, Australian group "Boystar", consisting of Ian Starr, Decklyn Jaxx and Steven Childs, released a cover version of "Loverboy".