 The track appears on their album "We Too Are One" and was released as the album's third UK single in January 1990.The song's music video showed Lennox and Stewart in a variety of costumes and settings which parodied various aspects of American pop culture, including a game show host and hostess, singing cowboy and cowgirl à la Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Ronald and Nancy Reagan.Although not released as a single in the United States, "The King and Queen of America" received a fair amount of airplay on MTV.