In Popular Culture
A version of the song was used as the theme tune on the nightly Today program broadcast on Thames Television from 1968 to 1977. This included the edition of the show featuring the Bill Grundy/Sex Pistols incident, after which the band danced to the song as the end credits rolled. Footage of this - complete with the song - has been included on punk documentaries such as BBC2's Arena: Punk and the Pistols.
On March 25, 2009, Life on Mars featured this song in the episode "Everyone Knows It's Windy."
On June 6, 2010, television show Breaking Bad, at the start of the episode "Half Measures" (season 3, episode 12), has Wendy the prostitute giving oral sex at the Crossroads Motel to the sounds of "Windy."
Brad Garrett sang a version of the song (replacing 'Windy' with 'Brad') in a commercial for 7-Up.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“For those that love the world serve it in action,
Grow rich, popular and full of influence,
And should they paint or write, still it is action:
The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
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