Popular Culture
The song was also featured in the soundtrack to Mr. Holland's Opus, as well as in the 1988 film, Red Heat, the 1998 romantic comedy There's Something About Mary and the 2001 movie The Majestic.
The song was playing in the scene in the 2008 Season 2 finale of Mad Men when Betty Draper was having a drink in a bar.
The song is used as the theme tune to BBC Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound. It was also played by Karl Pilkington on his phone while riding a camel across the desert and on his MP3 player when he is buried alive in Russia on an episode of An Idiot Abroad.
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