Mellow Yellow coffeeshop Mellow Yellow coffeeshop Mellow Yellow was the oldest cannabis coffee shop in Amsterdam, prior to its closure at the start of 2017. The coffee shop was founded in 1972 by Wernard Bruinin in Weesperzijde, Amsterdam, on the premises of a former bakery. The shop is named after "Mellow Yellow", a song by Donovan which describes the singer trying to become intoxicated through smoking the peel of banana. The intent of the shop is to sell cannabis, despite this being illegal at the time of its creation. Sales were originally disguised by drug dealers seated at the bar posing as customers.
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