Cultural References
Mayor of London Boris Johnson included the song as one of his eight Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 on April 20, 2003. Fashion designer Betty Jackson also included the song on her list on April 28, 2002.
At the televised memorial for Laci Peterson in May 2003, Morrison's original version of "Brown Eyed Girl" was played as the closing music.
In April 2005, the White House announced that "Brown Eyed Girl" gets regular rotation on George W. Bush's iPod. Morrison announced before a university performance in England: "Yeah, it's good to hear things like that, you know. But I would have preferred if it was a new song."
In March 2009, former US president Bill Clinton picked "Brown Eyed Girl" as top pick on his list of favorite ten tunes included on his signed iPod donated for a charity auction for musical victims of Hurricane Katrina.
A 2008 FoxTrot strip portrays "Brown Eyed Girl", along with "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor and "My Eyes Adored You" by The Four Seasons as music played on the music site "EyeTunes"
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“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)