In Popular Culture
The song is frequently played at charity events. Avril Lavigne and Heart made a duet singing this song at the 17th Race To Erase MS event in May 2010. Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, and Keith Urban performed the song at the 2010 Hope for Haiti earthquake relief telethon.
The song was used in a 1970s drug awareness film titled Dead Is Dead, hosted and produced by actor Godfrey Cambridge.
Mary J. Blige performed this song at the HBO We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. The next day, a crowd spontaneously began singing the song in the Purple Tunnel of Doom under the National Mall as they waited to gain entrance to the inauguration ceremonies.
The song features at the end of Radioactive Man, an episode of The Simpsons, when two film producers return to Hollywood after a movie failure.
Paula Abdul and The Muppets performed this song on a 1997 episode of Muppets Tonight.
On the fourth season of Martin, Martin and the crew sang the song in the hospital in the episode, "Why Can't We Be Friends" that was aired in 1996.
Brian Eno, Michael Stipe, and Stephen Colbert sang an a capella version of the song on The Colbert Report that first aired on November 10, 2011.
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