In 1967 Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen single: When I'm Sixty Four/Goodnight Irene (reached #43 in the UK charts).
In 1969, John Denver recorded a version for his album Rhymes & Reasons.
In 1976, Keith Moon recorded a version for the evanescent musical documentary All This and World War II.
In the 1978 film, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Frankie Howard and Sandy Farina sing the song.
It was featured in an Allstate Insurance commercial with Julian Lennon singing.
It was used as the theme song for the movie version of John Irving's novel The World According to Garp.
During the 1980s, an instrumental version opened each episode of the BBC feedback programme Points of View.
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber recorded an instrumental version on the 1986 album Travels With My Cello, Volume 2.
A version of the song appears in the 1989 movie Troop Beverly Hills.
Children's entertainers, Sharon, Lois & Bram recorded the song on their 1995 album Let's Dance!.
Cherie Blair sang a vocal rendition of it in the far-east whilst being broadcast on TV, as husband and Prime Minister Tony Blair smiled awkwardly and sang along.
In 2005, the song was covered by Arjen Anthony Lucassen on the Ayreon single "Come Back To Me".
In 2005, Jonathan Coulton made "When I'm 25 or 64," a mashup of "When I'm Sixty-Four" with "25 or 6 to 4" by Chicago.
For the 40th anniversary version for BBC Radio 2, Russell Brand did a version with Oscar-winning composer, David Arnold.
Les Fradkin has an instrumental version on his 2007 release Pepper Front to Back.
The song is included on the Cheap Trick album Sgt. Pepper Live, released in 2009.
The Rutles' song "Back In '64" is a pastiche of this song.
The song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks in "The Picture of Health," an episode of their '80s TV series.
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By: Shahen Gasparyan
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