The song was released in three forms: the eight-minute album version, the ten-minute extended 12-inch single version, and the three-minute single version.

On nba.com, the highlight package of Kobe 81 (including a three-minute version of the game) has been downloaded more than one million times, and traffic to his page increased tenfold.

A shorter three-minute version was also released.

No one would want to swap the full-length Blue Velvet,Raging Bull or Dead Ringers for the three-minute version.

Asked for the three-minute version, he responded: "When you do opera, you have to know that the central force is the singing.

He compared the original three-minute long version of the song to the one on the album, writing about the original that "it was affecting, funny ("I ordered the jerk, she said 'You are what you eat.'")

For his twelfth birthday his parents gave him a Kodak 8mm camera with which he began to make his own short films, including a three-minute version of Fantômas.

An edited three-minute version was issued as a single.

A three-minute version of the "Sparks" theme (with, then new, synthesiser orchestration) precedes "Exta, Extra, Extra" and "Pinball Wizard".

The Robinsons distributed a three-minute version of the song to radio stations, but almost immediately, all of them wanted to play the 15-minute version because of audience demand.