The Cross Promo Videos
This page briefly summarises all promo videos, giving known details including directors, filming locations and dates, content, and availability of each.
In the notes below, a 'standard performance' means that the track is performed live, without audience involvement, but the studio version is dubbed over the top.
Directed by Ralph Ziman.
This is a standard performance, filmed in black and white, with yellow footage of some of the people mentioned, such as Elvis and James Brown, and other film clips. It features Debbie Lang (Roger's then girlfriend) on backing vocals, and uses the single version of the track.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Unknown director.
This is a standard performance, which features additional drummer Matthew Lettley, who later played extensively with Status Quo. It uses the single version of the track.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Directed by Dieble/Myers.
This is a standard performance of the track, and features footage of numerous characters climbing up from below the stage, then up to the 'heaven' above. It was recorded at a former gasworks in Greenwich, London, on a "bloody freezing" day in early 1988, and uses Roger's vocal version of the track.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Directed by Geoff Schultze.
This video was recorded on the 'Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know' tour, in Nürnberg, Germany, on 4 June 1990. It uses the single version of the track.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by Geoff Schultze.
This video was recorded on the same night and features very similar footage. However, it uses the live track, rather than the single version.
An edited version was available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only, in fairly poor quality.
Directed by Paul Voss.
This is a standard performance of the track, with footage of man evolving over the years. It was recorded in London in 1991 and uses the single version of the track.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
Directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher.
This is a standard performance of the track, in front of a medieval ball and banquet. It was recorded at the Royal Palace, Vienna, Austria, in December 1989 and uses the album version of the track.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.
This is a re-edit of the original video, with some of the more provocative scenes removed.
Officially unreleased.
Directed by Ralph Ziman for VDO productions.
This is a standard performance of the track, with footage of people dancing to the music. It was recorded at Crazy Larry's Club in Chelsea, London, in November 1987.
Available on the DVD in 'The Lot' only.