Other Usage
The song was covered by Sid Vicious on his album Sid Sings, during his brief solo career after the Sex Pistols broke up. The Insane were also another band to cover it, only in a slightly different style. The Violent Femmes also covered this. Their version was included on the 'Machine' single and features only Gordon Gano singing and playing an electric piano. RKL contributed a cover of this song to the Covers compilation released by Mystic Records in 1984.
The band Hanoi Rocks' name is influenced by the song. When brainstorming band name ideas "Chinese Rocks" was one name that popped up, as the band were influenced by The Heartbreakers and Ramones. They decided it was too close to the song, and instead settled on the name Hanoi Rocks.
In his song "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" from his 2004 album Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, Nick Cave credits the song to Thunders in the line "And Johnny Thunders was only half alive when he wrote Chinese Rocks."
The Croatian punk band Paraf recorded its own version of the song on its first single (1979). The song was retitled Rijeka and featured completely new lyrics in Croatian that had nothing to do with the drug-related topic of the original. It rather presented a young punk's view of his home town. The song was attributed to the band leader Valter Kocijančić.
The song was covered by Jamie Pina, of Chemical People, on his solo release "...Bad Latino." The song featured Rikk Agnew of the Adolescents on backing vocals.
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