Drive My Car - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

  • The McCoys covered this song on their 1966 LP "You Make Me Feel So Good".
  • Junior Campbell covered this song on his 1972 LP "Second Time Around."
  • Stars on 45 covered this song as part of an eight song Beatles medley in their single "Stars on 45 (song)", which went to #1 in June 1981.
  • Former Spice Girls member Melanie Chisholm and Lulu sang "Drive My Car" on the TV Show "Red Alert" in 2007.
  • This song was one of four that McCartney performed live on the Super Bowl XXXIX half-time show, and one of the five performed at the Live 8 Concert in London, with George Michael adding backing vocals.
  • Samples from this song feature heavily in the track "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" track on the Love soundtrack album released in November 2006.
  • Neo-goth rock band BoySkout gave the song a languid tempo and long lead-in as an unlisted bonus track go the 2006 album Another Life.
  • The song was covered by the band Breakfast Club and featured in the movie License to Drive.
  • The song was covered by Bobby McFerrin on the album Simple Pleasures.
  • The Punkles did a punk cover of this song on their second album, Punk!.
  • The song was covered by The Hot Rats and appeared on a Hugo Boss advertisement featuring Sienna Miller.
  • Bret Michaels did a cover of this song with assistance from McCartney and Starr.
  • The "Beep Beep Beep Beep Yeah!" portion of the song has been used by oldies and classic hits stations as the traffic update intro in recent decades.
  • The Jonas Brothers played this song in the event that President Barack Obama threw to honour McCartney with the Gershwin Prize for his contributions to popular music. Subsequently, with permission from McCartney himself, they went on to perform it as their cover song on their 2010 World Tour.
  • Humble Pie also covered the song in his 1975 album "Street Rats"
  • The 1984 self-titled album by Humanoids on Parade contains a synth-pop cover of "Drive My Car" .
  • The song was covered by Vesyolye Rebyata on the debut EP. Lyrics has been completely redesigned for the Russian language.

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