Avalon in Popular Culture
- Two songs from the album have been used in Grand Theft Auto, appearing on the in-game's soundtrack on Emotion 98.3 in 2002 & 2006: "More Than This" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and "Avalon" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
- The Captain, a character from Marvel Comics' Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E., went briefly by the alias "Captain Avalon." He quickly dropped the moniker after learning from his mother that Avalon was the album playing when he was conceived.
- In the Max Brooks novel World War Z, the title song is mentioned. It is sung by a Scripps College student "with a voice like an angel" to inspire the exhausted defenders before the last major zombie incursion, during The Battle of the Five Colleges in Claremont, California.
- When the Toyota Avalon sedan was released to the New Zealand market in 2000, the advertising campaign used the song "Avalon". Due to the success of the campaign, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry CD compilations in music shops soon had stickers proclaiming "Featuring 'Avalon,' from the Toyota Avalon car commercial".
- Bill Murray performs "More Than This" in a memorable karaoke scene in the 2003 movie Lost in Translation.
- "While My Heart Is Still Beating" was used in an episode of Ashes to Ashes.
| Preceded by Complete Madness by Madness |
UK Albums Chart number one album 5 June 1982 19 June 1982 – 26 June 1982 |
Succeeded by Complete Madness by Madness The Lexicon of Love by ABC |
| Preceded by Rio by Duran Duran |
Australian Kent Music Report number-one album 12 July 1982 – 26 July 1982 |
Succeeded by Sons of Beaches by Australian Crawl |
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