In Pop Culture
- Bowie performed the song in a 1975 episode of Soul Train, one of the few white artists to appear on the long-running black music television series.
- In 1990, a new mix was used on the soundtrack for the movie Pretty Woman (see below).
- It was used in the movie A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant.
- It was used in the movie Copycat during a murder scene in a bar.
- It was released as a picture disc in the RCA Life Time picture disc set.
- It was featured on an episode of Nip/Tuck.
- It was featured on an episode of Doogie Howser, M.D.
- It featured in the Ashes to Ashes episode "Charity Begins at Home".
- It was featured on an episode of Ugly Betty.
- It appears as a playable track in Guitar Hero 5.
- It was featured on an episode of Lizzie McGuire.
- It is downloadable content for Rock Band 3.
- It was used in the movie Next Friday for Pinky's intro to his record store.
- It was used in the movie Bustin' Down the Door by Shaun Tomson.
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“There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)
“The children [on TV] are too well behaved and are reasonable beyond their years. All the children pop in with exceptional insights. On many of the shows the children’s insights are apt to be unexpectedly philosophical. The lesson seems to be, “Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great truths.””
—G. Weinberg. originally quoted in “What Is Television’s World of the Single Parent Doing to Your Family?” TV Guide (August 1970)
“If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator—the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)