The Smiths song " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " refers to Caligula: " What she asked of me at the end of the day / Caligula would have blushed ".

The album was followed the same year by the non-album singles " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " and " William, It Was Really Nothing ", which featured " How Soon Is Now?

Securing the band's first top ten placing, " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " was also significant for marking the beginning of engineer and producer Stephen Street's long-term working relationship with the band.

More controversy followed when " Suffer Little Children ", the B-side to " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now ", touched on the theme of the Moors murders.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

The album spun off three minor hits in the UK: " This Summer ", " Electric Trains " and " Heaven Knows ".

(" Heaven Knows " was used as the closing song in the 1995 film Hackers starring Angelina Jolie.

The John Huston war drama Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison starred Mitchum as a marine corporal shipwrecked on a Pacific Island with a nun, Sister Angela ( Deborah Kerr ), being his sole companion.

After hearing traditional calypso music and meeting artists such as Mighty Sparrow and Lord Invader while filming Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in the Caribbean island of Tobago, he recorded Calypso — is like so ... in March 1957.

He was replaced by Robert Mitchum, who agreed to work on the film for a chance to appear opposite Deborah Kerr, with whom he had become good friends while making Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison together.

Other studio tracks included the top ten hit, " Heaven Knows ", which featured the group Brooklyn Dreams accompanying her on background and Joe " Bean " Esposito singing alongside her on the verses.

Those aforementioned songs, along with " Heaven Knows ", " Last Dance ", " Dim All the Lights ", and " On the Radio " ( from her upcoming double-album ) would give her eight US Top 5 singles within a two year period.

In 1978, while working on the hit track, " Heaven Knows " which featured Brooklyn Dreams member Joe " Bean " Esposito on vocals, Summer met fellow member Bruce Sudano.

Nicholson also appeared on the cover of Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths pop group.

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison is a 1957 CinemaScope film which tells the story of two people stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

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* 1993: " Heaven Knows "

** Luther Vandross and Reed Vertelney for " Heaven Knows " performed by Luther Vandross

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* 1965: " Give Us Your Blessings "/" Heaven Only Knows " ( U. S. # 29 )

* Heaven Knows ( 1997 – 98 )

In addition, Evans recorded a contemporary cover version of Donna Summer's 1978 success " Heaven Knows " for the film which her characters performs during one of the first in sequence in the film.

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" The song was ' Walk Around Heaven ' and in his last words he said ' I'm going to heaven.

The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs " Just Like Heaven ", " Lovesong " and " Friday I'm in Love " entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Hal Borne – Astaire's rehearsal pianist – performed this role in Top Hat and recalled working nights with him in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel: " Berlin went ' Heaven ...' and I went dah dah dee ' I'm in Heaven ' ( dah-dah-dee ).

Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and R & B, such as the popular singles " Brown Eyed Girl ", " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )", " Domino " and " Wild Night ".

Two songs, " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )" and " Redwood Tree ", reached the Hot 100 singles chart.

Artists and songs covered included " Into The Groove " by Madonna, " Message in a Bottle " by The Police, " Gloria " by Laura Branigan, " Hip Hop Hooray " by Naughty by Nature, " Friday I'm in Love " by The Cure, " Livin ' on a Prayer " by Bon Jovi, " Physical " by Olivia Newton-John, " Heaven Is A Place On Earth " by Belinda Carlisle, " Everybody Have Fun Tonight " by Wang Chung, " All Fired Up " by Pat Benatar, " Workin ' Overtime " by Diana Ross, " The Promise of a New Day " by Paula Abdul, " Pump up the Jam " by Technotronic, " Motownphilly " by Boyz II Men, " I Have Nothing " by Whitney Houston and " Breakaway " by Tracey Ullman in addition to hundreds of other songs over the entire run.

In the United States, the self-titled Heaven 17 album was a re-working of Penthouse and Pavement with three songs deleted and replaced by " Let Me Go ", " Who'll Stop the Rain " and " I'm Your Money " ( along with a different mix of " The Height of the Fighting ").

The follow-up " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )", a cover of a Van Morrison tune, also reached the top 5 in the UK singles chart.

* " I'm In Seventh Heaven " by Al Jolson

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*" Diane ( I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile )" by Nat Shilkret as the Troubadours, vocal Franklyn Baur, Lewis James and Elliot Shaw

*" Diane ( I'm in Heaven when I See You Smile )" by Franklyn Baur, accompanied Nat Shilkret Orchestra

* While performing their 1982 hit " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )", the band Dexys Midnight Runners were seen performing in front of a projection of the darts player Jocky Wilson instead of soul singer Jackie Wilson.

*" I Always Think I'm Up in Heaven " ( 1918 )

* U-202-" Man beyond the Clouds "/" I'm Heaven Bound "-Singing Sammy Lewis

A number of songs were covered during the show, including Belinda Carlisle's " Heaven Is a Place on Earth ", Hank Williams ' " I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ", The Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers " among others however one of the more notable covers came when McCready performed a cover of " River of Deceit " for the first time since the breakup of Mad Season with Jeff Rouse performing vocal duties on the song.

He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.