The cost totaled over one million pounds, a staggering sum for music videos at the time, as his design filled one entire end of the "007 Stage" at Pinewood Studios with a metal pyramid and a windmill over a deep enclosed pool, and called for a lifelike robotic face, dozens of elaborate costumes, prosthetics, and makeup effects, and then-cutting-edge computer graphics.
The song was the only studio track on the band's live album Arena (1984).
It was recorded at the end of July 1984 at Maison Rouge Studios in London.
"The Wild Boys" became one of the band's biggest hits, reaching number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.
The track hit number one on the US Cash Box.