Don't Bring Me Down
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"Don't Bring Me Down" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra, the last track from their 1979 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.
The song was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11, 1979.
On November 4 2007, Jeff Lynne was awarded a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) Million-Air certificates for "Don't Bring Me Down" for the song having two million airplays.
Misheard Lyric
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 "Grroosss". 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 Jeff Lynne actually began to sing the word as Bruce at live shows.