Intriguingly, the anti-US footage is sound-tracked by an instrumental version of We Are The World, the 1985 charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie.

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For many years the weather forecast at the end of Soviet TV's nightly news broadcast was accompanied by an instrumental version of a 1967 Eurovision hit - "Love is Blue".

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At the climax of the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers, " hundreds of gun-toting police officers, state troopers and other riotous authority figures scramble after John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as they calmly ride a Chicago City Hall elevator while being soothed by a piped-in instrumental version.

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