In Popular Culture
- Darling is the subject of The Velvet Underground's opening track on their third, and self-titled, album in 1968 with the song "Candy Says", sung by Doug Yule. In 2003, the album was ranked Number 314 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
- Candy was one of several Warhol associates memorialized in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" from his 1972 second solo album, Transformer, produced by David Bowie. The second stanza was hers.
- In The Rolling Stones song, "Citadel", released in 1967, Candy Darling is mentioned along with her friend Taffy Tits.
- Peter Hujar's photo, "Candy Darling on her Deathbed", was used by Antony and the Johnsons for the cover of their 2005 Mercury Music Prize-winning album I Am a Bird Now.
- Greer Lankton made a bust of Candy that was displayed at the 1995 Whitney biennial.
- The Kinks' song "Lola" was supposedly inspired by Candy Darling.
- An image of her, taken from Women in Revolt, was also featured on the front cover of the 1987 single "Sheila Take a Bow" by the English group The Smiths. The last song on lead singer Morrissey's solo album You Are the Quarry is called "You Know I Couldn't Last," a clear reference to her famous deathbed quote.
- Daniel Ash's first solo album Coming Down has a song called "Candy Darling".
- Candy Darling's letters, sketches and journal entries were compiled into a book titled My Face for the World to See by Hardy Marks publications.
- The song "Queen of War" by French artist Electrosexual features a sample of Candy's voice from the film Flesh, directed by Paul Morrissey.
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