[4] George Harrison reinterpreted it for his 1974 album Dark Horse, changing the words to reference his wife Pattie Boyd leaving him for his friend Eric Clapton.

Simon & Garfunkel were fascinated with its sound, so they repeated it a second time for a recording; while the first try failed, they liked the second attempt and included it on Bridge over Troubled Water.

As well as inserting a comma in the song title, Harrison wrote additional lyrics and a radically different melody line.

[12][13] Author Chris Ingham describes Harrison's version as "recomposed in a minor key and featuring pointedly customised lyrics".

Rumours circulated that Clapton himself contributed on guitar and Boyd on backing vocals,[16] but they were incorrect,[17][18] although the new couple were credited on the inner sleeve notes.

[21] In music journalist Peter Doggett's description, "gossip columnists lapped up" the information Harrison disclosed in the song.

[22] Among more recent assessments, Richard Ginell of AllMusic calls it a "slipshod rewrite"[23] and Alan Clayson refers to Harrison's "blatant ...

[15] Author Simon Leng views it as "one track on Dark Horse that seriously fails the quality-control test ... a desperately bad offering".

He adds: "In its own way, 'Bye Bye, Love' is a classic 1970s period piece, from the era when rock stars used music to settle their own personal scores.

With this cover version, Williams continued, Harrison "sought the kind of return to bare-bones rock'n'roll simplicity Lennon had achieved with 'Instant Karma'".

Within the music industry, the use of the song in that matter was a cautionary tale for how allowing a song to be used in advertising can go wrong; songwriter and producer Bob Gaudio recalled the advertisement when discussing the tight rein he held over his catalog with the Four Seasons Partnership: "Even now I have to turn it off if it shows up on YouTube.