It lost the former category to DD Smash's "Outlook for Thursday" and the latter nomination to Coconut Rough's "Sierra Leone", produced by Dave Marrett.

[4] Commercially, the song peaked at number two on New Zealand's RIANZ Singles Chart, spending three consecutive weeks at the position in February 1983 and remaining in the top 50 for 13 weeks.

[6] The single also charted in Australia, where it reached number 11 on the Kent Music Report.

[7] The song's music video, filmed at Ponsonby's Peppermint Park nightclub in Auckland, was directed by Murray Grindlay (Monte Video) and Mark Ackerman.

[3][8] The video features numerous uses of alcohol and tobacco and includes several transvestites.