During 2001 the song was used in a TV and cinema advertising campaign for UK mobile phone company One2One, which featured Gary Oldman.

[3][4] "Lovely Head" is used as the background music in most scenes of BBC animated television series Monkey Dust that contain the character Clive Pringle.

[8] "Lovely Head" features lonesome and eerie whistling of the melody of the Beatles's Strawberry Fields Forever, and cold vocals set to harpsichord and strings.

[citation needed] It was inspired by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey and Italian film director Sergio Leone.

[9] In August 2009, American music website Pitchfork listed "Lovely Head" in their Top 500 tracks of the 2000s at number 493.