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Ranked Number 20 in VH1's "100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs".
The song was made playable in the music rhythm video games, GuitarFreaks 6th Mix/Drummania 5th Mix, as well as Lego Rock Band, Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, and Guitar Hero 5. The Guitar Hero version retains the original studio ending with no fade out, with a song length of 4:07. In Guitar Hero, Jon stopped singing and the band continues singing was actually from the original version as the song has crossfaded to Livin' On a Prayer. The version features an ending solo.
The song was reworked and made available to download on November 9, 2010 for use in the Rock Band 3 music gaming platform in both Basic rhythm, and notably PRO mode which takes advantage of the addition of a real guitar / bass guitar, and use of standard MIDI-compatible electronic drum kits / keyboards in addition to three-part vocal harmonies or backup vocals. The ending features an a cappella chorus section like how the band usually ends the song in live performances.
Dwight Schrute plays this song in The Office on a recorder.
In the How I Met Your Mother episode "The Limo", Barney Stinson plays this song as part of his Get Psyched Mix and can also be seen on his blog.
The song was used as background music in the Fall/Winter 2006 Christian Dior goth-metal-rock-themed ready-to-wear fashion show.
In an issue of Thunderbolts, Deadpool starts singing the song after literally being "shot through the heart" by Black Widow.
The song was featured in the "Youth in Revolt" trailer.
KickBend evokes the "angel's smile" lyric in their song "Gone'" from the album faith.hope.love (2009).
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