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1. | Women | 05:41 | Show lyrics |
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2. | Rocket | 06:34 | Show lyrics |
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3. | Animal | 04:02 | Show lyrics |
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4. | Love Bites | 05:46 | Show lyrics |
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5. | Pour Some Sugar on Me | 04:25 | Show lyrics |
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6. | Armageddon It | 05:21 | Show lyrics |
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7. | Gods of War | 06:32 | Show lyrics |
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8. | Don't Shoot Shotgun | 04:10 | Show lyrics |
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9. | Run Riot | 04:38 | Show lyrics |
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10. | Hysteria | 05:49 | Show lyrics |
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11. | Excitable | 04:19 | Show lyrics |
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12. | Love and Affection | 04:35 | Show lyrics |
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Band members | |
Joe "King Kreosote, The Diplomat" Elliott | Vocals, Songwriting |
Wing Commander Steve "Steamin', Dreamy, Snikker, Mayhem, P.T.W." Clark, A.H.D. (R.I.P. 1991) | Guitars, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Air Commodore Phil "Felix, P.C., The Guru, Wambo, Tap" Collen, B.T.H. | Guitars, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Baron Beaverbrook "Sir Richard" Rick "Sav" Savage | Bass, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Civilian Rick "O.B. Oblivion, Dick, Bus Head" Allen | Drums, Vocals (backing) |
Guest/Session | |
Mutt Lange | Vocals (backing) |
Rocky Newton | Vocals (backing) |
Gary Kemp | Vocals (backing) (track 3) |
Philip Nicholas | Keyboards, Programming |
Miscellaneous staff | |
Erwin Musper | Engineering |
Ronald Prent | Engineering |
Bob Ludwig | Mastering |
Rick Allen | Producer |
Howie Weinberg | Mastering |
Ross Halfin | Photography |
Laurie Lewis | Photography |
Mark Flannery | Tape operator |
Mike Shpiley | Mixing |
Andie Airfix (R.I.P. 2018) | Artwork |
Rick "Sav" Savage | Producer |
Joe Elliott | Producer |
Phil Collen | Producer |
Steve Clark (R.I.P. 1991) | Producer |
Nigel Green | Engineering, Mixing |
Mutt Lange | Songwriting, Producer |
Joe "King Kreosote, The Diplomat" Elliott | Vocals, Songwriting |
Wing Commander Steve "Steamin', Dreamy, Snikker, Mayhem, P.T.W." Clark, A.H.D. (R.I.P. 1991) | Guitars, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Air Commodore Phil "Felix, P.C., The Guru, Wambo, Tap" Collen, B.T.H. | Guitars, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Baron Beaverbrook "Sir Richard" Rick "Sav" Savage | Bass, Vocals (backing), Songwriting |
Civilian Rick "O.B. Oblivion, Dick, Bus Head" Allen | Drums, Vocals (backing) |
Mutt Lange | Vocals (backing) |
Rocky Newton | Vocals (backing) |
Gary Kemp | Vocals (backing) (track 3) |
Philip Nicholas | Keyboards, Programming |
Erwin Musper | Engineering |
Ronald Prent | Engineering |
Bob Ludwig | Mastering |
Rick Allen | Producer |
Howie Weinberg | Mastering |
Ross Halfin | Photography |
Laurie Lewis | Photography |
Mark Flannery | Tape operator |
Mike Shpiley | Mixing |
Andie Airfix (R.I.P. 2018) | Artwork |
Rick "Sav" Savage | Producer |
Joe Elliott | Producer |
Phil Collen | Producer |
Steve Clark (R.I.P. 1991) | Producer |
Nigel Green | Engineering, Mixing |
Mutt Lange | Songwriting, Producer |
You Flash Your Bedroom Eyes... | 70% | Sweetie | April 15th, 2022 | |
On Through the Nightmare:... | 95% | AtomicMassHysteria87 | February 22nd, 2019 | |
This is heavy metal? | 35% | Face_your_fear_79 | March 18th, 2018 | |
...and there was no turning... | 72% | StupidBunny | September 12th, 2014 | |
"Hysteria": 80's Favorite... | 65% | Brainded Binky | October 19th, 2013 | |
And I want, and I need | 78% | extremesymphony | January 1st, 2013 | |
How very eighties. Good... | 85% | morbert | May 8th, 2012 | |
A glam/80s hard rock classic | 92% | IWP | January 1st, 2008 | |
Def Leppard's Hysteria:... | 40% | DawnoftheShred | May 11th, 2007 | |
Metal? No. Fun? Yes. | 81% | hells_unicorn | January 6th, 2007 | |
Synthetic Pop Junk! Yet... | 76% | OlympicSharpshooter | March 24th, 2004 |
Music videos:
• Women
• Rocket
• Animal
• Love Bites
• Pour Some Sugar on Me
• Hysteria
All backing vocals by The Bankrupt Brothers*.
"Hysteria" is Def Leppard's best seller and also one of the best-selling Hard Rock albums ever, having sold over 20 million copies worldwide and spawning five hit singles.
The production of "Hysteria" was a troubled affair. The band initially wanted Mutt Lange to produce it, as he had done with their previous album, "Pyromania". When he declined, citing exhaustion, they hired "Jim Steinman". A version of "Hysteria" was partly recorded with Steinman at the helm, but remains unreleased to this day, as the band members do not think favourably of it. This early recording session, however, still had to be paid for, and so the band billed themselves "The Bankrupt Brothers" in the finished album sleeve, as by the time the album was released they owed Steinman a lot of money. Even after Mutt Lange had finally signed on as producer, they hadn't actually recorded much when drummer Rick Allen crashed his car on New Year's Eve 1984, and lost his arm. The band waited for him to recover, and learn to play a specially-designed, midi-enhanced drum kit, to resume the recording. As soon as he was playing comfortably and satisfactorily, they went back to the studio, and then Mutt Lange had a car accident himself, which delayed the production some more.
When the album was eventually released, Def Leppard toured the world for two solid years on the back of it, and filmed the "In the Round in Your Face" live video. For part of that tour, they had Queensrÿche as the opening band, themselves touring their "Operation: Mindcrime" album.
The reversed speech at the start of "Rocket" is actually a line from "Gods of War": "We're fightin' for the gods of war".
A "Classic Albums" documentary has been made for "Hysteria", chronicling its inception, recording process and legacy.
Trivia:
- The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200.
- "Animal" music video later appeared in an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head called Sign Here.
Recording information:
Recorded at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland.
Identifiers:
Barcode: 042283067516
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