Studio Two, Abbey Road Studios, London
Producer: Paul McCartney
Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Wings finished recording the London Town song ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ on 24 November 1977.
The basic track had been recorded in the Caribbean on 24 and 25 May, but had been left dormant since then.
The overdubs recorded on this day included three vocal tracks by Paul and Linda McCartney and Denny Laine, electric lead and acoustic guitar parts by Paul, and flageolet whistles played by him and Laine. The two men then double-tracked lead guitar lines played on acoustic guitars put through phaser effects pedals.
We were there doing ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’. We had it very basic then, it was just drums and two guitars as I remember. As with most of the stuff we brought it back to London, after we’d finished in the Virgin Islands, did some overdubbing on it. I played electric guitar on it. We did a lot of vocal overdubbing with Denny and Linda, and Denny and I finished it off by playing these little things called flageolets, which is a posh word for an Irish tin whistle.
An Evening With Paul McCartney, Capitol Radio, 21 March 1978
Also present in the studio was Dave Gelly, reporting for MPL’s Club Sandwich magazine.
That evening, the McCartneys had a Thanksgiving meal at their London home, 7 Cavendish Avenue.