Goedemorgen allemaal, maak er vooral een mooie dag van. Vanmorgen op radio 10, themakanalen/ 60/70 dit geweldige nummer van ELO ( Electric Light Orchestra), Livin' Thing'.

--AllMusic's writer Stewart Mason described the song structure: "[it] opens with a mock-Spanish orchestral flourish before swinging into a more typical mid-tempo ELO rocker, driven by a battery of acoustic rhythm guitars on the verses and modulating upwards into a falsetto Jeff Lynne vocal on a chorus that’s powered by an even more prominent than usual contribution from the group's string section", adding that it lacks "that impossible-to-dislodge hook that typified Lynne's most successful songs from this era, but it's still a darn sight better than most of what was at the top of the charts in late 1976"--