Don't Let It Bring You Down

Cover versions

• Perhaps the first cover was recorded by Caleb Quaye's band Hookfoot in 1971.
• The song was covered by Sting's pre-Police band Last Exit, as part of their 1974 Impulse Studio Demos.
• It was also covered by Victoria Williams on the 1989 anthology album .
• Annie Lennox covered the song on her 1995 Medusa album; her version also appeared in the movie American Beauty, although it wasn't included on the film's soundtrack album.
• A performance of the song by Seal appears on his 2006 live album One Night to Remember.
• The alternative rock band Q And Not U covered the song for the compilation album Don't Know When I'll Be Back Again.
• The 1990s alternative rock band Weeping Tile covered the song on their first album, eePee.
• Alexa Ray Joel covered the song on her 2006 EP entitled Sketches.
• The Danish band Kellermensch covered the song in a hard rock/metal version on the 2009 album Kellermensch.
• Wolfmother played this song acoustically in 2009 and included it on the Japanese version of Cosmic Egg.
• Chris Cornell covered it live on his Acoustic Songbook show at the Troubadour.
• Andy Pratt covered the song on his 2011 release All That Glitters.
• Guns N' Roses covered the song in 2012 during their Appetite for Democracy residency in Vegas.
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band often performs the song live in an up-tempo arrangement. One such version can be found on the collection Odds & Sods – Mis-takes & Out-takes and another one, in a slightly different arrangement, on the DVD Angel Station In Moscow.
• The Hold Steady covered it live on August 30, 2011 at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Everything Everything covered the song on a Radio 1 session on 25th July 2017. It was later released on their 2018 EP, A Deeper Sea.
• In 2019, featured the song on their album "," in a medley with John Coltrane's ballad, "Naima."
• Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau covered the song on his 2020 album Suite: April 2020.