Notable Covers and Pop Culture Uses
"Rock & Roll" has appeared in a number of films, including A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Rock 'n' Roll High School and SLC Punk!
A clip of the Velvet Underground performing the song is played on completion of the Rock & Roll wonder in Civilization IV. In addition, the quote about researching the technology "Radio," read by Leonard Nimoy, is "...then one fine morning she puts on a New York station.... You know, her life was saved by rock & roll." The quote is credited to Lou Reed.
Mitch Ryder's band The Detroit Wheels, which featured Lou Reed's future guitarist Steve Hunter, performed one of the first cover versions of the song in 1971. Others to cover the song have been Phish, The Runaways and Jane's Addiction, with the city's name in the lyric "she turned on that....station..." changed to the city each covering singer was singing about .
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