Mellow Yellow Paul McCartney can be heard as one of the background revellers on this track, but the "quite rightly" whispering answering lines in the chorus is not McCartney but rather Donovan himself. Donovan had a small part in coming up with the lyrics for "Yellow Submarine", and McCartney played bass guitar (uncredited) on portions of Donovan's "Mellow Yellow" album. In 2005, the track was remastered by EMI Records for the "Mellow Yellow" album re-issue. "Mellow Yellow" was covered in 1967 by soul singer Big Maybelle on her album "Got a Brand New Bag". It was also covered in 1968 by British
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