 In 2016, "Pale Shelter" was prominently sampled in the song "Secrets" by the Canadian singer The Weeknd.The promotional music video for "Pale Shelter" was directed by Steve Barron in early 1983 in Los Angeles.The video, which features a number of odd juxtapositions (including a police officer directing traffic and a live alligator in a swimming pool), is notable for the scene of an imprint of a giant iron on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport, with steam apparently coming off the tarmac, onto which Smith and Orzabal walk, and another scene in which the pair walk into a sea of flying paper aeroplanes, with one of them hitting Orzabal directly in the eye.