The title of the film is derived from the final lines of the Crass album Yes Sir, I Will; "You must learn to live with your own conscience, your own morality, your own decision, your own self. You alone can do it. There is no authority but yourself."
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Robert Peel | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever | Sir Nigel | Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson | Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet | Sir Douglas Quintet | Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet | To Sir, with Love | Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars | Sir William Johnson | Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet | Sir John Moore | Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet | Sir John D'Oyly | Sir John Anderson |
The Eurodisco song "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" by Baccara (1977) borrows heavily from this song, sharing the intro and the bass line but with a different chorus line.
In 2000, Nina Miranda of Smoke City fame covered the track for the soundtrack of the movie Born Romantic.
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ABBA cover act Björn Again recorded a cover version that appears on the second disc of their double album Flash Back!
The title of the record is ironic, taken from a news cutting reporting a conversation said to have taken place between Charles, Prince of Wales and a badly burned soldier (Simon Weston) who had returned from the Falklands;