Don't Bring Me Down

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“Don't Bring Me Down”
“Don't Bring Me Down” cover
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Discovery
B-side "Dreaming Of 4000"
Released August 1979
Format 7"
Recorded 1979 Musicland Studios , Munich
Genre Rock music, Power Pop
Length 4:08
Label Jet Records
Producer Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"The Diary Of Horace Wimp"
(1979)		 "Don't Bring Me Down"
(1979)		 "Confusion"
"Last Train To London"
Discovery track listing
"Wishing"
(8)		 "Don't Bring Me Down"
(9)
Flashback track listing
"Tears in Your Life"
(16)
(CD II)		 "Don't Bring Me Down"
(1)
(CD III)		 "The Diary of Horace Wimp"
(2)

"Don't Bring Me Down" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra.

The song was the last track from the album Discovery. This was the first song by ELO not to include a string section. It was also the band's biggest hit in the United States, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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[edit] Song meaning

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The song is dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11, 1979.

[edit] Lyrics

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Jeff Lynne shouts "Bruce!" . However, according to liner notes, he is actually saying a made-up word "Groos".

This is similar to a German word for "greeting", Gruß possibly referring to the Bavarian greeting Grüß Gott the group would have heard while recording the album in Munich.

However, after the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as Bruce that the band actually changed the lyrics and began to sing the word as Bruce.[1]

[edit] Music video

A music video for the song was produced, which showed video of the band performing the song interspersed with various animations relating to the song's subject matter.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Wild, David. "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band and the Pop Genius Who Dared to Go Baroque." Flashback.

[edit] External links


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