XTC's 1980 song "Towers of London" is based musically on "Rain". The night after Lennon was killed, the band played a gig at Liverpool, where they performed both "Towers of London" and "Rain" in tribute to the Beatle. U2 played the song in whole or in part throughout many of their tours, usually during outdoor concerts when it has started to rain. Pearl Jam improvised the song into their song "Jeremy" during their 1992 Pinkpop Festival show and played it in full at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2012. Kula Shaker covered the song live at Reading Festival in 1996 as did Fairport Convention, featuring Dan Ar Braz, at the Cropredy Festival in 1997. The Grateful Dead played it twenty times throughout the early 1990s. Shoegaze band Chapterhouse covered the song for their 1990 "Sunburst" EP.