And right into mine. I don’t recall the “turn me over” bit yet the album is structured, as it were, as Day then Night.
The “please turn me over” is at the conclusion of an instrumental coda at the end of the song, which only appears on the album version; the 45 (single) version of the song is almost a minute and a half shorter, as it cuts off the coda.
Here’s the album version; “please turn me over” is at 4:50.
I bought the sheet music when it first came out and some wank had it printed as “Gross” which made not a lick of sense.
I have a set of sheet music for Don’t Bring Me Down, as well, but I bought it about 10 years ago (though I bought it on eBay, so I’m not sure of exactly when it was printed). They must have corrected it at some point, as it shows the word as “grroosss.”
Argh. “The uploader has not made this video available in your country”
UK
Hey, where is Jeff Lynne from?
I had that album. I assembled the cardboard spaceship it came with. And generally would flip it over, after cleaning the flip side and I’m just going to guess from memory that the first song is “Night in the City”
Wow! Excepting the extended coda I don’t see what can be cut.
I rarely bought 45’s. The last I can recall is Charlie Daniels Band “Devil went down to Georgia”. I already had the album, yet the single version replaces
Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever wanna try again
I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best there’s ever been.
with
son of a gun
which I still find humorous.
Born and raised in Birmingham. He was born in Erdington, and grew up in Shard End (which he name-drops in “All Over the World”).
“Night in the City” is the first song on side 2. “Turn to Stone” is the album’s first song; if you turn over the second disk (as instructed 
) after “Mr. Blue Sky,” the next song you would hear (the start of side 4) would be “Sweet is the Night.”
That I knew. Just like Ozzy. The question was rhetorical. Haven’t heard of the other places.
So yeah, thanks for putting all those songs into my head. For the 10 year old me, “Telephone Line” was one of saddest songs I’d ever heard (like Eleanor Rigby)
My understanding is that Erdington and Shard End are either neighborhoods or wards of Birmingham proper, or suburbs of the city.
Speaking of Ozzy: in the early '80s, when ELO was starting to wind down, their drummer, Bev Bevan (also born and raised in Birmingham) served as Black Sabbath’s drummer during a tour, as Sabbath’s usual drummer, Bill Ward, was dealing with health issues.
Major sidetrack: If you can find it, the album Message From the Country by The Move has Bevan singing a song and sounding hella lot like Johnny Cash.
Not me. I … can’t get it out of my head.
You poor boy.
There is a strange magic about some of their songs.
Well, it’s a givin’ thing. It would be a terrible thing to lose.
stop please all of you
“Is that what you want?”
It’s interesting that Mr. Blue Sky songwriter/producer Jeff Lynne also produced Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever which had a similar between-side segue (“Hello CD Listeners”). Coincidence?