Don't Bring Me Down

"Don't Bring Me Down"
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Discovery
B-side"Dreaming of 4000"
Released24 August 1979 (UK)
Genre
Length4:02
LabelJet
Songwriter(s)Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"The Diary of Horace Wimp"
(1979)		 "Don't Bring Me Down"
(1979)		 "Confusion/Last Train to London"
(1979)
Discovery track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Shine a Little Love"
  2. "Confusion"
  3. "Need Her Love"
  4. "The Diary of Horace Wimp"
Side two
  1. "Last Train to London"
  2. "Midnight Blue"
  3. "On the Run"
  4. "Wishing"
  5. "Don't Bring Me Down"
Music video
"Don't Bring Me Down" on YouTube

"Don't Bring Me Down" is a song by English progressive rock Electric Light Orchestra. It was released in 1979; first as the ninth and final track on their eighth studio album, Discovery. Then, as its third single. It went to number 1 in Canada, number 2 in Austria and Switzerland, number 3 in the United Kingdom, number 4 in the United States, number 5 in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands and number 6 in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.

Personnel

Partial credits from JeffLynneSongs.com and engineer Reinhold Mack.

Chart and sales

References

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