The music video was one of the first to feature a cinematic storyline and dance choreography and was a hit on the fledgling MTV network (in somewhat edited form, as the original European cut was notable for a sequence featuring a topless woman), helping the song to become the second international hit for the band. The music video, directed by Dick Maas, features a storyline with lead singer Barry Hay as an espionage agent who is apprehended by three henchmen (played by the other members of the band). The music video was featured on Volume One of the VHS companion compilation. In the 1990s, the song was included on a volume of Rhino Records' New Wave Hits of the '80s series. Kooymans sings lead on the choruses, backed by Hay. Each sings lead for one half of the first verse (first Kooymans, then Hay), and Hay sings lead for the second verse with backing by Kooymans and provides the spoken lines in the introduction and first verse. Lead vocals are divided between Kooymans and Barry Hay. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart, the band's only No. It was the group's sole Top 10 Pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 (the song reached #16 on the Cashbox chart) and hit No. It spent more than half a year (27 weeks) on the U.S. "Twilight Zone" appears on their 1982 album Cut and pays tribute to the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone. It was written by the band's guitarist George Kooymans, who got the inspiration from a book by Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity. "Twilight Zone" is a 1982 hit by Dutch band Golden Earring.
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