Concerning the clip 's ban , Bowie confessed , " I think it 's ludicrous . The censors got caught up in the usual yellow press kind of excitement because of what it looked like instead of what it said . " During the press tour for the Glass Spider Tour , he was asked about the controversy and responded , " We asked the Los Angeles police to work with us and they did very happily . We wanted to indicate how some of the houses for the homeless are removed , so we asked them to bring along the kind of contraption they use ... it 's kind of like a tank with a big battering ram on the end of it . And on the end of the battering ram they 've made a little joke . As it goes through the windows it goes ' Have a nice day . ' And I pointed out that it would be in the video and they said they were only too pleased to keep it on , so they kept it on . Is that controversial ? I do n't know . " The video was nominated for a 1987 MTV Video Music award in the category " Best Male Video " , but lost to Peter Gabriel 's clip for " Sledgehammer " ( 1986 )
1987 MTV Video Music award
1987 MTV Video Music Awards
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