
Spock (with a Rubik's Cube), and Bob Hope. During the bridge, the Superman-costumed Reagan and a triceratops (with punk jewellery) watch a television showing various clips of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and East German leader Erich Honecker (as Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson), Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon, Mr. Meanwhile, the "real world" Reagan is shown exhaling in a large pool of his own sweat (at one point, a rubber duck floats by), as Nancy and the monkey look out the window. Meanwhile, Reagan is shown putting on a Superman suit and running down a street while Collins sings,
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The video intermittently features a line of feet in combat boots marching through a swamp past the heads of Cold War-era political figures including Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, Leonid Brezhnev, and Henry Kissinger.Ĭaricatured versions of the band members are shown playing instruments on stage during a concert: Tony Banks on an array of synthesizers (as well as a cash register full of cookies), Mike Rutherford on a four-necked guitar, and two Phil Collins puppets: one on the drums, and one singing.ĭuring the second verse, the video shows, in order: Benito Mussolini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Mikhail Gorbachev and his aides, and Muammar Gaddafi giving speeches on large video screens in front of mass crowds.


Reagan, holding a teddy bear, kisses the monkey goodnight, falls asleep and begins to have a nightmare, which sets the premise for the entire video. Nancy is absorbed in reading His Way, Kitty Kelley's unauthorised biography of Frank Sinatra.
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The video opens with a caricatured Ronald Reagan (voiced by Chris Barrie), Nancy Reagan, and a monkey (a reference to the 1951 movie Bedtime for Bonzo which starred Reagan ), going to bed at 4:30 PM. After Phil Collins saw a caricatured version of himself on the show, he commissioned the show's creators, Peter Fluck and Roger Law, to create puppets of the entire band, as well as all the characters in the video.

The video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image. The song is widely remembered for its music video, which had heavy airplay on MTV. The band members (Banks, Collins and Rutherford) as they appeared in the video.
