Humble Pie’s Steve Marriott won a Gold Medal Award for top television commercial in 1989, for singing a cover of the Ike & Tina Turner’s “Black Coffee” as a commercial jingle advertising Nescafé’s Blend 37 coffee.

The refrain from The Clash’s 1982 song “Straight To Hell” was used twenty five years later as the hook for M.I.A.’s 2007 smash hit “Paper Planes”. Members of The Clash got songwriting credit on the track.

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