Uses in Popular Culture
Samples of the backing track are used in Rebel MC's hit single "Tribal Bass" which reached #20 in the United Kingdom in 1991.
The song is played during an episode of Cougar Town, and over the end credits of an episode of Peep Show.
In season 1, episode 6 of South Park ("Death"), Stan's grandpa locks him in a room and plays a parody of the song to illustrate what it feels like to be old.
The song features in the 2010 film Shrek Forever After, and during a climactic torture sequence in David Fincher's American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The chorus is sung by the fictional character Alan Partridge in the TV series I'm Alan Partridge.
In 1989, iris breeder Cy Bartlett named a cultivar "Orinoco Flow".
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“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)