Synopsis

Adam Ant is cast as a male Cinderella, left behind while his moustached step-sisters head to a grand ball. In a cluttered kitchen, the Ants encourage him until Diana Dors appears as his Fairy Godmother, accompanied by five dancers. She transforms him into a flamboyant Regency prince, allowing him to make a spectacular entrance at the ball. Adam and the guests perform the signature arm-crossing dance before he smashes a mirror and appears in a series of glamorous and cinematic character guises.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was released in 1981, during the peak of the Antmania phenomenon, and its elaborate costumes, sets and choreography were unusually ambitious for the period.

• Diana Dors plays Adam's Fairy Godmother. The appearance was among her last on-screen performances.

• The signature dance became widely imitated. Choreographer Stephanie Coleman said the four principal hand movements represented pride, courage, humor and flair.

• Chris Hughes, the band's drummer and producer, played the song's open-tuned acoustic guitar riff. In the video, Marco Pirroni mimes the part on both a full-size harp and a miniature harp.

• The closing transformations reference several screen icons, including Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name, Alice Cooper, Rudolph Valentino's Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan and Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone.

• An alternate edit replaces the Vito Corleone appearance with Adam's dandy highwayman character from the "Stand and Deliver" video.

• Adam Ant has said that the song's idea was connected to Beau Brummell, the celebrated Regency-era arbiter of men's fashion.