Covers, Samples, & Media References
Cover versions of "Girls on Film" have been recorded by Björn Again, Wesley Willis Fiasco, The Living End, Girls Aloud, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, Billy Preston, Kevin Max, La Ley, Midnight Oil and Nathan Stack (who went on to become Duran Duran's official MySpace page coordinator).
Daan covered the song live
The song was used as opening music to original Japanese version of the anime series Speed Grapher; due to licensing issues, the song "Shutter Speed" by Shinkichi Mitsumune was used in the U.S. release instead.
A live version of "Girls on Film" was used as the theme music to the TV series Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Model Search.
The song appears as downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band, and appears with the censored video in the SingStar Pop Vol. 2.
Several cover versions of "Girls on Film" (one of them by Mona Donnerman) were produced exclusively for Swedish retail-clothing company H&M to be used in a series of TV commercials in 2011 and 2012.
Scottish Rock band Kung Fu Academy recorded a cover in 2012, which was released exclusively on YouTube.
In Sleeping Dogs on Sagittarius FM
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