The duo wrote the song initially for Madonna, though they never asked her to record it, preferring to play it themselves.
In the music video, Neil Tennant marries a woman who is then seduced by a vampire played by Ian McKellen. Ironically, in real-life both Tennant and McKellen are gay.
It was filmed in Mokrice Castle, Slovenia, at those times part of the former Yugoslavia that it disappeared in 1992.