Cover Versions
A dance version of the song was recorded by Robey in 1984, which peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Dance Chart, before the success of the original version. On the Billboard Hot 100, Robey's version entered the chart at #80 on March 2, 1985, just one week after Murray Head's version debuted. Robey's version peaked at #77 and spent 3 weeks on the Hot 100.
Steve Vai incorporated part of the song in his 1996 Fire Garden Suite. Another instrumental version was recorded by Hank Marvin, as a medley with 'Variations,' on his album Hank Plays the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Others to cover the song have been Jan Werner Danielsen, A*Teens, C21, and DJ Antoine. In 2010, the track was sampled by Mark Knight in his single, Devil Walking.
Former pro boxer Mike Tyson sang a cover version of the song for the 2011 film The Hangover: Part II, in which he has a cameo.
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