Popular Culture
The song is an unofficial anthem for at least two teams named Harlequins, for which "Quinn" can be shorthand:
- Cork Harlequins Hockey Club plays the song in national competitions when they score a goal. It was sung at their men's Irish Senior Cup win in May 2012, and their ladies' Irish League finals in 2009 and 2010.
- English premiership rugby union club Harlequins F.C. is referred to by their fans as the "Mighty Quins" and the chorus is sung as "Quins" rather than "Quinn". The song has been the anthem of the club since the 1990s and was recorded by the players on a single that was sold through the club shop.
Dylan makes reference to the song in his 2004 autobiography Chronicles Volume One: "On the way back to the house I passed the local movie theater on Prytania Street, where The Mighty Quinn was showing. Years earlier, I had written a song called "The Mighty Quinn" which was a hit in England, and I wondered what the movie was about. Eventually, I'd sneak off and go there to see it. It was a mystery, suspense, Jamaican thriller with Denzel Washington as the Mighty Xavier Quinn a detective who solves crimes. Funny, that's just the way I imagined him when I wrote the song "The Mighty Quinn," Denzel Washington."
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