It borrows from Shirley Bassey's 1972 track "Jezahel",[1] a cover of the song "Jesahel" by the Italian prog rock band Delirium.

Following the use of "Harder Than You Think" to soundtrack the UK's Channel 4 coverage of the Summer 2012 Paralympics, a music video including clips from the Channel 4 trailer for the Summer 2012 Paralympics was produced by HWIC Filmworks (founded by John Delserone and David C. Snyder, who directed the original video).

The song featured prominently towards the end of the BBC Four 2011 documentary "Public Enemy: Prophets Of Rage" which was screened as the fourth episode of the channel's "Black Music Legends Of The 1980s" series.

In the United Kingdom, it was used as the soundtrack in both the 90-second trailer[7][8] and as the theme tune to Channel 4's coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

It'd be a thrilling piece of work in any era, Chuck delivering a typically apocalyptic call to arms over a backing track which uses a horn sample from Shirley Bassey's 'Jezahel', but to hear it blasting from the radio in the second decade of this century is beyond beautiful.