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Books

  • The Cassius Clay Story, by George Sulivan (1964)
  • Black is Best: The Riddle of Cassius Clay, by Jack Olsen (1967)
  • Muhammad Ali, who once was Cassius Clay, by John Cottrell (1968)
  • Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali, by Budd Schulberg (1972)
  • The Fight, by Norman Mailer (1975)
  • The Greatest: My Own Story, by Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham (1975)
  • Free to Be Muhammad Ali, by Robert Lipsyte (1979)
  • Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ, by Elliott J. Gorn (1988)
  • Muhammad Ali: The Fight for Respect, by Thomas Conklin (1992)
  • Clay V. United States: Muhammad Ali Objects to War (Landmark Supreme Court Cases), by Suzanne Freedman (1997)
  • The Tao of Muhammad Ali, by Davis Miller (1997)
  • I'm A Little Special: A Muhammad Ali Reader, by Gerald Early (1998)
  • King of the World, by David Remnick (1999)
  • More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali, by Jan Philipp Reemtsma (1999)
  • Learning About Strength of Character from the Life of Muhammad Ali (Character Building Book), by Michele Ingber Drohan (1999)
  • Muhammad Ali (Journey to Freedom), by Clay Latimer (2000)
  • Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, by Mike Marqusee (2000)
  • The Greatest, by Walter Dean Myers (2001)
  • Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World, by Mark Collings (2001)
  • Ghosts of Manila, by Mark Kram (2002)
  • Muhammad Ali: Trickster Celebrity in the Culture of Irony, by Charles Lemert (2003)
  • The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey, by Muhammad Ali and Hana Ali (2004)
  • The Untold Legacy Of Muhammad Ali, by Thomas Hauser (2005)
  • Clay V. United States And How Muhammad Ali Fought the Draft: Debating Supreme Court Decisions, by Thomas Streissguth (2006)
  • What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States, by Dave Zirin (2005)
  • The psychodynamics of white racism: An historical exploration of white racial pathology as elicited by prizefighters Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali : (Dissertation), by Michal Louise Beale (2006)
  • I'm a Bad Man: African American Vernacular Culture and the Making of Muhammad Ali, by Shawn Williams (2007)

Magazine articles

  • Playboy - Interview: Cassius Clay, by Hugh M. Hefner (October 1964)
  • Life Magazine - Cover: Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), by Editor Henry Luce (March 6, 1964)
  • Esquire - "The Passion of Muhammad Ali", by George Lois (April 1968)
  • Life Magazine - Cover: Muhammad Ali, by Editor Henry Luce (October 23, 1970)
  • Life Magazine - Cover: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, by Editor Henry Luce (March 5, 1971)
  • Life Magazine - Cover: Ali vs Frazier by Frank Sinatra, by Editor Henry Luce (March 19, 1971)
  • Time Magazine - "The Greatest is Gone Muhammad Ali * Much Ado About Haldeman", (February 27 1978)
  • ESPN Sports Century - "Muhammad Ali: "The Greatest" by Joyce Carol Oates (1999)
  • Time Magazine - "100 Heroes & Icons: Muhammad Ali", by George Plimpton (June 14, 1999)
  • "UN Messengers of Peace reflect on their work.(Muhammad Ali, Jane Goodall and Anna Cataldi)" An article from UN Chronicle, (2005)
  • "The fight of his life: boxing Great Muhammad Ali battles Parkinson's disease" An article from: Science World, by Mona Chiang (2006)

Poetry and quotations

Illustrated books

  • Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali the First Heavyweight Champion of Rap, by George Lois (2006)
  • The Rough Guide to Muhammad Ali, by Ann Oliver (2004)

Photography

  • Muhammad Ali: The Birth of a Legend, Miami, 1961-1964, by Flip Schulke (1999)
  • GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), Taschen's massive 800-page tribute weighs 75 lbs; limited "Champ's Edition" is autographed by Muhammad Ali and comes with a sculpture by Jeff Koons (2004)
  • Muhammad Ali, by Dave Anderson and Magnum Photographers (2006)

Comics

  • New Grappler Baki - In Search of Our Strongest Hero, Japanese manga series portraying Muhammad Ali and a fictional son, Muhammad Ali, Jr.
  • Superman vs Muhammad Ali, by Dennis O'Neill & Neal Adams, DC Comics (1978)

Books for children

Music

  • Ali himself released a 45rpm version of the song "Stand by Me" (written by Ben E. King, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller), a track which also featured on his 1963 Columbia album "I am the Greatest" (released under the name Cassius Clay).
  • Bob Dylan composed a song about the young Cassius Clay "I Shall be Free No. 10" from the 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan featuring the lyrics: I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day; I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay; I said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay, here I come; 26, 27, 28, 29; I'm gonna make your face look just like mine; Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run; 99, 100, 101, 102; your ma won't even recognize you; 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19; gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen.
  • In December 1969, Ali appeared on Broadway in the musical Buck White.[1] The show ran for just seven performances; but Ali and the cast performed the number "We Came in Chains" on the Ed Sullivan Show.
  • In 1971, New York singer Vernon Harrell released a record about him called "Muhammed Ali" (sic) (Brunswick Records #55448) as Verne Harrell. This misspelling of Ali's name was printed on the labels of the 45s.
  • In 1974, a song about Ali titled "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" was recorded by British reggae group Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band.[2]
  • In 1981, Dutch guitarist Harry Sacksioni composed and played a song called "Ali's Shuffle".
  • The R. Kelly song "World's Greatest" is a tribute to Muhammad Ali and it is featured on the soundtrack to the 2001, motion picture Ali. In 2002, the song peaked at #34 on Billboard's Hot 100 US singles chart and at #4 on the UK singles chart. The song's video features archived footage of Ali as well as an homage to the firefighters, law enforcement officers and emergency medical workers regarded among the greatest heroes of the rescue operations necessitated by the events of 9/11.
  • The British dance band Faithless recorded a song titled "Muhammad Ali" which was released as a single on September 23, 2001. The single reached #29 on the UK singles chart. The song was included on their 2001 album Outrospective.
  • In 2001, he was mentioned (under the name Cassius Clay) in the lyrics to De Phazz's "Death By Chocolate" album in the song "Something Special".
  • In their debut 2006 album, British Indie band The Hours mention Ali in their song "Ali in The Jungle".
  • Australian alternative band Butterfingers mention Cassius Clay in their song "Fig Jam"
  • A line from LL Cool J's 1991 single "Mama Said Knock You Out" off of his album of the same name goes: "Just like Muhammad Ali, they called him Cassius"

Movies and television

When We Were Kings is a 1996 Academy Award-winning documentary film about the "Rumble in the Jungle", Ali's legendary 1974 fight against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami is a WLRN documentary which charts Cassius Clay's remarkable transformation from young boxing hopeful to cultural icon. The film traces Ali’s stunning rise through the heavyweight ranks, his friendship with Malcolm X, his historic clash with champion Sonny Liston, and his subsequent refusal to fight in Vietnam.

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When We Were Kings

Several individuals have portrayed Ali in film biographies, including Ali himself in the 1977 film, The Greatest. Others include:

Ali has appeared as himself in numerous scripted films and television series, including the films Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Body and Soul (1981 version, starring Leon Isaac Kennedy), and Doin' Time (1985); and the television series Vega$ (1979), Diff'rent Strokes (1979), and Touched by an Angel (1999). He also provided the voice for the titular character in the 1977 NBC animated series, I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali.

Ali portrayed a former slave in Reconstruction-era Virginia who is elected to the United States Senate in the 1979 NBC TV movie Freedom Road, which was based upon the 1944 novel by Howard Fast.

Ali is featured prominently in a series of ESPN specials in honor of his 65th birthday. The shows include Ali Rap, Ali's Dozen and Ali 65. They premiered on December 9th, 2006 at 9PM EST on ESPN.

Ali appeared on the WGBH series Say Brother, where he spoke about his reasons for not serving in the Vietnam War.[3]

Commercials

In 1969, Ali appeared with Pop Icon Andy Warhol in a short-lived television campaign for Braniff International Airways. The commercial was not well-received by Braniff's customer base and was pulled from the airwaves in 1970.

In 1971, Ali appeared in a television commercial for Vitalis alongside fellow boxer Joe Frazier, and he appeared in Super Bowl TV commercial for Pizza Hut with his real-life trainer Angelo Dundee.

Sometime in the mid-1970s, Ali also appeared in a very amusing television ad for D-Con Roach Proof: after hitting a heavy bag (a training device suspended from above that simulates the bulk of an opponent for punching), he turns to the camera in his boxing gear, raises and shakes a fist, and exclaims to the audience, "I don' want you livin' wit' no roaches!"

Ali appeared in one of the posters for the "Think Different" campaign by Apple Computers in 1997.

Has appeared in at least one poster advertising Coca-Cola.

Video games

Ali has appeared in numerous video boxing games, some of which feature him as the title character. Examples include Foes of Ali, Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing, the Fight Night series and the game of Knockout Kings

  1. ^ Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=3305
  2. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:en5uak5k5m3k~T1
  3. ^ http://openvault.wgbh.org/saybrother/MLA000938/index.html
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