
The video features One Direction's actual family members, specifically Liam's parents and sister, Zayn's sister, Niall's brother, Harry's mother and Louis's grandparents (paternal and maternal). It featured each band member reliving their life stories, including childhood memories, and interacting with the family members within beloved photographs. The video strays from the song content, in that it takes the title phrase literally rather than metaphorically. The official release was on November 3, 2013. On 1 November 2013, the music video was accidentally uploaded early to Vevo. Until she's broke (until she's broke inside) The fire beneath my feet is burning brightĪnd I been waiting for this time to come aroundīut baby running after you is like chasing the clouds I know that in the morning now I see us in the light upon a hillĪlthough I am broken, my heart is untamed, still Leave my heart open but it stays right here in its cage Written on these walls are the colors that I can't change The story of my life (the story of, the story of) Seems to me that when I die these words will be written on my stoneĪnd time is frozen (the story of, the story of) She told me in the morning she don't feel the same about us in her bones I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain It was posted onto the one direction youtube account and featured a few seconds from the video of each member, Liam, Niall, Zayn, Louis and Harry, respectively. The countdown to the music video release began with 3 days before with the release of the first trailer on Octocalled "One Direction - Story of My Life (3 days to go)".

On Saturday, July, 5, 2020, in honor of the bands 10 year anniversary a 4k version of Story Of My Life was released. They song went straight to number 1 on iTunes in 47 countries such as the UK, US, Australia, Belgium, India, Mexico and many other places. The official One Direction YouTube account released a message from the band announcing the single release. The song was released on Monday October 28th to those who had either bought the EP or had pre ordered the deluxe or the normal edition of Midnight Memories. The audio for the song was also uploaded onto the official One Direction Vevo account as well as the official One Direction Youtube account. The song premiered at 4pm on stations worldwide such as BBC Radio 1 ( UK), The Hits Radio ( UK), In:Demand ( UK), Captial FM ( UK ), The End 107.9 FM ( USA), NRJ Radio (in both France and Sweden), Planet Radio ( Germany), Radio Mix ( Brazil), SiriusXM Hits ( America ) and many others. One Direction were on tour in Australia for the Take Me Home Tour when "Story Of My Life" was released, meaning the interviews were conducted via telephone or pre-recorded. Harry was on Brazillian radio station "Radio Mix" and UK radio station "The Hits Radio".Niall was on French radio "NJR" and UK radio show "Capital FM" at 4pm BST.Liam was on a Dutch radio station, German radio station "swr3" and UK radio station "BBC Radio 1" at 3:45pm BST.Zayn was on Danish radio station "The Voice" at 3:30pm BST (4:30pm CEST) and Spanish radio station "Los 40 Principales" at 6:00pm BST (7:00pm CEST).

Louis was on Swedish radio station "NJR" at 6:30am BST (7:30am CEST) and Dutch radio station "3FM" at 6:45am BST (7:45am CEST).On October 25, 2013, the boys did interviews on various radio stations worldwide. On October 24, 2013, it was revealed that there would be an exclusive clip of " Little Things" live in concert that would be included on the track and a soundcloud of the track was also posted.
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The full song was released on October 25, 2013. Even though the challenge was not completed, the clip was shared several minutes later. On October 21, 2013, the band asked the fans through twitter to make "The 1D Family", "Would like to hear" "#StoryOfMyLife16secClip" and "NOW PLEASE" the top 4 trends in order to get an exclusive 16 second clip of the single.
