The original version of the video featured clips from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990). These clips did not feature the film's star Andrew Dice Clay because he was banned from MTV.
Billy Idol appears only from the waste up due to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident shortly before the filming of the video.
"Cradle of Love" is a rock song composed in common time and in the key of Bb major.
The song title is based on the saying "robbing the cradle."
The song became one of Idol's biggest hits in the United States, where it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.