In Popular Culture
Director Norman Jewison featured the song on the soundtrack for his 1989 film In Country, starring Bruce Willis.
Christian comedian Tim Hawkins parodied the song on his album Extremely Madeover.
In the 2011 Australian film The Hunter, after Willem Dafoe fixes the generator, the song begins to play on the record player, awakening someone sleeping inside the house
It also sounded in the Nanni Moretti's film, Palombella Rossa.
"I'm On Fire" is mentioned in the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
The song is also mentioned in Eric Church's song titled "Springsteen"
The line "at night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet" appears in The Gaslight Anthem's "High Lonesome."
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