Mellow Yellow (album) previously illustrated his infatuation with an ability to define the mid-sixties pop music scene. On "Mellow Yellow" this is still evident in "Sunny South Kensington", "Museum" (originally recorded for the "Sunshine Superman album" and rerecorded for "Mellow Yellow") and the title track, but is also tempered with world-weary observations of that scene ("Young Girl Blues"). The contractual problems that prevented the release of Donovan's music in the UK led him to write such songs as the resigned "Writer in the Sun", where he contemplates the possibility of his own forced retirement from the music industry at the age of 20.
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