Editing Instant Karma! (section)

==Cover versions and cultural references==
Artists who have covered "Instant Karma!" include [[Toad the Wet Sprocket]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/working-class-hero-a-tribute-to-john-lennon-mw0000179837 |title=Various Artists ''Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon'' |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=24 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324230032/http://www.allmusic.com/album/working-class-hero-a-tribute-to-john-lennon-mw0000179837 |archive-date=24 March 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Paul Weller]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Boraman |first=Greg |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/cjxm |title=Paul Weller ''Fly on the Wall'' Review |publisher=[[BBC Online]] |access-date=18 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925112511/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/cjxm |archive-date=25 September 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Duran Duran]],<ref>{{cite web|last= Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/instant-karma-the-amnesty-international-campaign-to-save-darfur-expanded-mr0001575386 |title=Various Artists ''Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur [Expanded&#93;'' (Digital Download – Warner Bros. #) |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=14 November 2013}}</ref> [[Tater Totz]] with [[Cherie Currie]],<ref>{{cite web|first=Ron|last=Kretsch|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/spastic_ono_band_redd_kross_beatles_yoko_freak-out_did_not_amuse_beatlefest|title=Spastic Ono Band: Redd Kross' Beatles/Yoko Freak-Out Did Not Amuse Beatlefest Attendees, 1988|publisher=[[Richard Metzger|Dangerous Minds]]|date=17 May 2017|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901003708/https://dangerousminds.net/comments/spastic_ono_band_redd_kross_beatles_yoko_freak-out_did_not_amuse_beatlefest|archive-date=1 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Tokio Hotel]].<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Spahr, Wolfgang |title=Lennon Cover Marks Tokio Hotel's Year on Charts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg8EAAAAMBAJ&q=Tokio+Hotel |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=4 November 2006 |page=87 |access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref> In 2007, the song provided the title for [[Amnesty International]]'s multi-artist compilation of Lennon compositions, ''[[Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/instant-karma-the-amnesty-international-campaign-to-save-darfur-mw0000577865 |title=Various Artists ''Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur'' |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622051801/http://www.allmusic.com/album/instant-karma-the-amnesty-international-campaign-to-save-darfur-mw0000577865 |archive-date=22 June 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> for which [[U2]] recorded a cover version.<ref>Woods, p. 115.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.twincities.com/2007/06/11/shos-third-great-way-to-meet-great-band/|last=O'Hare|first=Kevin|title=''Instand Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur'', Various Artists|work=[[Pioneer Press]]|date=11 June 2007|access-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911225632/https://www.twincities.com/2007/06/11/shos-third-great-way-to-meet-great-band/|archive-date=11 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2022, the American group [[Bleachers (band)|Bleachers]], formed by the singer and producer [[Jack Antonoff]], covered the song for the [[Minions: The Rise of Gru (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] of the animated movie ''[[Minions: The Rise of Gru]]''. 

The title of [[Stephen King]]'s 1977 horror novel ''[[The Shining (novel)|The Shining]]'' came from Lennon's line "We all shine on." King was going to call the book ''The Shine'', before realising that "shine" had been used as a derogatory term for blacks.<ref>King, Underwood & Miller, pp. 125, 190.</ref>

In 1988,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vX5SckOt3jEC&dq=Nike+using+Lennon+song+%22Instant+Karma%21%22&pg=PT305 Southall & Perry].</ref> Ono allowed the footwear and apparel company [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] to feature "Instant Karma!" in an advertising campaign, after a public outcry the previous year had forced her to withdraw permission for the use of the Beatles' "Revolution".<ref>Klein, p. 28.</ref> [[Instant Karma (record label)|Instant Karma Records]] was named after the song,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=White |first=Adam |title=Dickins' New Sony Label Takes Shape |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQ0EAAAAMBAJ&q=New+Sony+Label+Takes+Shape&pg=PA7-IA2|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=27 March 1999 |pages=3, 104|access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref> and [[the Flaming Lips]] recorded their track "I Don't Understand Karma" in 2009 as a reply to "Instant Karma!"<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Summer 2009 Preview |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3Yx8-Sz2uAC&q=Instant+Karma |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=23 May 2009 |page=33 |access-date=25 January 2015}}</ref>