[3] In his autobiography he called it "a unique blend of constructivist propaganda, Russian folk music and slow-jive disco (pompous was fashionable then), all inspired by a typically Blitz-dreamt European nostalgia.

[7] Russell Mulcahy was hired to direct,[8] and it wound up costing more than double its original budget of £15,000 and taking longer than the one scheduled day to film because the area had just received several feet of snow.

[9] Mulcahy was only partially successful in getting all of the band members to ride horses; when Gary Kemp was thrown from the thoroughbred he was given and knocked unconscious,[10] drummer John Keeble became unnerved, dismounted and refused to get back on.

[13] Although The Rolling Stone Album Guide found "Muscle Bound" to be "thin and monotonous",[15] the song otherwise received good reviews, including one from the New Musical Express proclaiming that it "shrivels the LP under its heat [and] makes those other singles sound like tinny, teenybop jingles.

[18] Dave Thompson of AllMusic called it "a sweaty slab of twilight homoerotica that really is as beefy as its title suggests," [19] and categorized all three songs from the album that were released as singles as "utterly convincing white boy Funk".

[20] Melody Maker in their 1995 special feature on the Romo movement, claimed that the song's subject matter was strongly influenced by the German Burschenschaft in the 19th century, particularly their practice of assembling at night in the mountains around campfires to read and recite literature.