"We were seen as a band that wouldn't last, so I think they wanted to milk us for everything we were worth." How an off-the-cuff cover of a 60s song became an era-defining hit and an albatross around the neck of the band that recorded it

The Lemonheads posing against a blue sky.

“Everybody wants a song in a Martin Scorsese movie, right?” says Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando. He’s talking about The Lemonheads’ fuzzed-out, full-tilt cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s 1968 hit Mrs. Robinson, which was used in Scorsese’s 2013 film The Wolf Of Wall Street, behind a climactic scene of the lead character’s financial downfall.

“Hearing our record in that movie put the whole experience in the positive column for me. It redeemed itself with Scorsese. So now I’m completely pro the whole thing of Mrs. Robinson.”