Brian Duffy was hired to direct the music video for "Gold", part of which was filmed in the Arab Hall of the Leighton House Museum, where Spandau Ballet are shown performing the song. Kemp and Hadley were the only band members who went to the other location shoot, in Carmona, Spain. Kemp described it as "our first travel video and an obvious answer to the epics-from-abroad that Duran was now making." Hadley played a character who wandered the sun-baked streets and outskirts of town searching for pieces that made up a gold puzzle. Although Kemp did not appear in this footage, he was there to provide input but later felt that his controlling nature was too much for Duffy, who walked off the job without speaking to either of them about it beforehand. Kemp took over his duties for the rest of the shoot there. In his autobiography To Cut a Long Story Short, Hadley wrote that they "ended up working crazy hours to complete it." The video featured Sadie Frost as a gold-painted nymph, in one of her earlier roles, and because it was late into the night by the time they shot the last scene, which involved Hadley taking the last piece of the puzzle from Frost, he had fallen asleep and had to be awakened in order to complete the shoot.
