In an interview with Uncut magazine, he said that "it's wonderful to have a cover that's much better known than the original" and stated that he didn't mind that many people mistakenly believed that Status Quo wrote the song.

[4] Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh considered the song a good choice for the album's lead single, although he claimed that it was "little more than the formulaic CCR sound with the title repeated over and over, like a chant.

John Fogerty is back, capturing all the deceptively simple magic frantic feel that made Creedence a groundbreaking rock group in the '60s," praising the vocals, instrumentals and the title.

In 1988, to support Sport Aid, Status Quo re-recorded the song as "Running All Over the World" with slightly amended lyrics.

A portion of the song was played in the background music of the episode of the ITV Sport show English Football League Highlights when Katie Shanahan was presenting a match between Millwall and Sunderland.

The song was reprised once again, in 2014, for Status Quo's thirty-first studio album, Aquostic (Stripped Bare), as an acoustic arrangement.