“Lean on Me” was released in April 1972 in advance of the Still Bill album. It knocked Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” from the top of the Hot 100, and spent three weeks at No. 1.

He had been hired to play a minor role in the 1989 movie that eventually went to Michael Imperioli. Sam Rockwell was let go from 1989's Lean on Me before his scene was filmed, but he's still ...

Getting cut may have been for the best, as Imperioli told The New Yorker last year that Lean On Me—his first-ever experience on a movie—was a stressful experience.