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Demo versions featured May singing, having to sing some parts in falsetto because they were too high. When Brian May presented the final demo to Mercury, he had doubts that Mercury would be physically capable of singing the song's highly demanding vocal line, due to the extent of his illness at the time. To May's surprise, when the time came to record the vocals, Mercury consumed a measure of vodka and said "I'll fuckin do it, darling!" then proceeded to nail the vocal line in one take without problems.

The single was received very positively over most of the world except for North America. In April 1984, it became No 3 in the United Kingdom, and was within top 10 in many European and Latin American countries, but only peaked at #45 in the US charts. The single was certified gold in the UK. The video for the song, featuring Mercury in women's outfit with a thick moustache, and its ban by MTV and some other US stations played a role in the low US ranking. According to May in an interview about Queen's Greatest Hits, whereas the video was understood and taken as a joke in UK, the US audience failed to see the soap-opera connection and might have interpreted the video as an open declaration of transvestitism and Mercury's bisexuality.