Editing Sonny Liston (section)

===Music===
Liston has been referenced in many songs by artists such as [[Curtis Eller]], [[Sun Kil Moon]], [[the Animals]], [[Tom Petty]], [[Mark Knopfler]], [[Phil Ochs]], [[Morrissey]], Freddy Blohm, [[Chuck E. Weiss]], [[This Bike is a Pipe Bomb]], [[the Roots]], [[Wu-Tang Clan]], [[Gone Jackals]], [[Billy Joel]], [[the Mountain Goats]], [[Lil Wayne]], [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]], and [[the Killers]]. [[Mark Knopfler]]'s tribute to Liston, "Song for Sonny Liston", appeared on his 2004 album ''[[Shangri-La (Mark Knopfler album)|Shangri-La]]''.

A wax model of Liston appears in the front row of the iconic sleeve cover of [[the Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''. He is seen in the far left part of the row, wearing a white and gold robe, standing beside the original-look Beatle wax figures.<ref>''The Art of the Beatles'', Mike Evans, Ed. Anthony Blond (Muller, Blond & White), United Kingdom, 1984, {{ISBN|0-85634-180-0}}, {{p.|69-70}}.</ref>

Singer/songwriter Rod Picott wrote and recorded a song titled "Sonny Liston" for his 2022 album "Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows."