Use in Popular Culture
The main riff of the song is used for commercial break bumpers as well as the closing theme for The Mancow Morning Experience radio program.
The 1979 Live recording appears in Electronic Arts Battlefield Vietnam (2004) as a radio choice for vehicles and the loading music for Operation Flaming Dart
The song was played at the end of the Mad Men episode The Other Woman (5th season), as Peggy's expression turned from sadness to a smile and she entered an elevator, having just given her resignation to a stunned Don Draper.
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