In Popular Culture
In Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. Carl Sagan refers to us as "Star Stuff".
A line from the chorus, "We are billion year old carbon," was used by Corey Mesler as the title of a novel about the 1960s.
The song was also used in an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 where the characters act out the story of a girl from the 1960s whose diary is found by Brenda.
The song was used in a Six Feet Under episode entitled "Back to the Garden" (named after a lyric in the song) in 2002, but the song isn't featured on the official soundtrack.
Astronautalis references the song in "Dimitri Mendeleev," when he sings: "Joni Mitchell said 'we are stardust, / we are golden', we are all the same."
| Preceded by "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne |
UK number one single (Matthews Southern Comfort version) October 31, 1970 for three weeks |
Succeeded by "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix |
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