Other Versions
- Producer/Musician Chip Douglas has stated he transmuted the song's opening guitar riff into the guitar riff of the Monkees "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
- An upbeat live version of the song opens Harrison's Live In Japan album, recorded and released in 1992. Harrison and bandmate Eric Clapton extend the song with a few guitar solos. Harrison uses the lyric reversal mentioned in his autobiography, singing the bridge "it isn't me, it's just the mind."
- Jeff Lynne performed the song in 2002 at the Concert For George, using it to open the main set and again featuring Clapton as a sideman.
- Ted Nugent covered the song on his 1979 album State of Shock and also on Super Hits released in 1998.
- The Smithereens covered the song on the 2005 deluxe edition of God Save The Smithereens.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays the introduction to this song when recording a cover version of the Beatles' song Day Tripper.
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