In the video are featured scenes of a theoretical video named "Sally", performed by "Ian Pearson Band". This video is fictional, as Ian Pearson was a technical animator who with Gavin Blair created the iconic rotoscope effects for the Dire Straits' video. These effects can be seen over Mark Knopfler and the band when they playing at a concert, watching them totally or partially colored.
The lead animator on this music video, Ian Pearson wound up despising it as it was the only thing people ever seemed to know him for or want to talk to him about. He later mocked the video on the animated series he co-created, ReBoot (1994), in the episode 'Talent Night' in which the characters from this video audition for the show, only to be viciously booed, pelted with tomatoes and crushed by sandbags.
In the video is featured the Hungarian pop band Elsö Emelet and their video "Állj, Vagy Lövök!" ("Stop or I'll Shoot!") appearing as "Baby, Baby" by "First Floor". Elsö emelet is "first floor" in Hungarian.
The music video was filmed in Budapest. In some scenes the Budapest Congress Center is seen (as the First Floor's "Baby Baby" video-within-the-video) and the Ian Pearson Band's faux video shows the Fisherman's Bastion (with the Danube being seen for a short second) and an unidentified classy-looking hotel room.
This was the very first video ever shown on MTV Europe when the television channel launched on August 1, 1987.