 One scene in "Wired" features Joe Strummer's song "Love Kills", from the soundtrack to "Sid and Nancy" (1986), another biopic about a celebrity drug casualty, and which features a taxicab as a metaphor for the afterlife.In another scene in "Wired", Billy Preston appears as himself, playing a piano accompaniment to Chiklis as Belushi singing the song "You Are So Beautiful" (co-written by Preston) in the style of Joe Cocker.Principal photography of "Wired" commenced in May 1988 and finished in the autumn of that year.