Mellow Yellow the album "Donovan's Greatest Hits", the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to "The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll", he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics. This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with "NME" magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies' vibrators."
Yellow (Coldplay song) rock band Tonight Alive performed a version of the song on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on 20 March 2018. Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias performed a little acoustic cover version of "Yellow" with his band on 22 October 2018 at his show in Dublin, Northern Ireland. A Chinese cover of "Yellow" became the last song in the 2018 movie, "Crazy Rich Asians". Warner Bros. and Coldplay were initially both opposed to using the song, but Director Jon M. Chu convinced them otherwise, adding that "a white director couldn't do it," but he could. Coldplay was convinced after Chu wrote