"Don't Bring Me Down" became a smashing success for the group as their second highest-charting single in the UK, but also landed them at No.4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. At the time, the band decided to move away from their usual sound and go for a more disco vibe with their new album. Frontman Jeff Lynne was the one behind "Don't Bring Me Down," and once called it a "great big galloping ball of distortion."
Drummer Bev Bevan was also asked to develop a beat, but didn't want to take part int he jame session for "no reason," and they instead looped his drums on a tape. Lynne would compose the track's music on a piano with no string instruments also due to a developing issue.
After developing some lyrics about a girl who thought she was better than her boyfriend, the song came together. Lynn explained in the liner notes of the 2001 reissue of the album, “I wrote it at the last minute [because] I felt there weren’t enough loud ones on the album. This was just what I was after."
Alongside the misheard word, the track also includes the real-life sound of a door closing, which was a metal fire door at MusiclandStudio. "Don't Bring Me Down" also became the unofficial theme song for the NASA Skylab space station in 1979.
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