This song deals with spirituality and religion. It was Frankie Goes To Hollywood's third single, and proved they were not afraid to tackle controversial subjects; "Relax" was about sex and "Two Tribes" was about politics.
Anne Dudley, from the UK studio group Art Of Noise arranged the strings. In 1997 she won an Oscar for her work on the 1997 film The Full Monty.
The song was released in December and the video had a nativity theme. The video was directed by Lol Creme and Kevin Godley, who were members of the band 10cc. Filmed in the desert outside Jerusalem over one week, their "Bethlehem" was an abandoned Palestinian refugee camp. "'The Power of Love' was like the planets aligning," Godley recalled to The Guardian in 2022. "It's coming up to Christmas, the song's about love, what's the most appropriate thing we could do? We didn't set out to take the piss. We wanted it to be as genuine as possible, to hit some emotional marks in the song. I think the film amplifies that in a very appropriate way."
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