The romp of a song is mindless fun and remains one of the genre's most headbanging, fist-banging greatest. However, no prior hit of theirs was as wildly as popular. It was released on 7th September 1987 reaching Number 18 on the singles chart. The second single to be released from the Hysteria album in the UK. The fourth North American single from the 'Hysteria' album was released on 6th May 1988. Def Leppard released their classic Pour Some Sugar On Me single on this day in 1987 in the UK. To be sure, "Pour Some Sugar on Me," like much of the band's discography, is adrenaline inducing. Def Leppard's classic single Pour Some Sugar On Me peaked Number Two on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart on this day in 1988.
Add Elliott's dynamic vocals and charisma to the mix and the result is the powerhouse recordings that are Def Leppard songs.
DEF LEPPARD POUR SOME SUGAR ON MAY ARCHIVE
A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. Their recordings pay tribute to life's most basic themes - heartache, partying, love, and sex - using a spot-on combination of driving and whammied electric guitars, thundering drums, and some of music's most infectious lyrics. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. But Def Leppard had hard/glam rock down to an effortless science. Such lines as, "I'm hot/sticky sweet/from my head to my feet" could have sounded hackneyed coming from another band. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 23. Who knew that years later, such acts as Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock would expound on this foundation to create rap-metal? Lyrically, Def Leppard abuses all the sugar-candy sex clichés in the book on "Pour Some Sugar on Me," but they do it successfully. Pour Some Sugar on Me is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It also serves up one of the earlier examples of rock-rapping in his own way, Elliott delivers the song's verses in a manner that is reminiscent of the contemporary urban genre. The song, a raw anthem dedicated purely to sex, boasts some of hard rock's most unmistakable booming drum lines, courtesy of Rick Allen, who began to play an electronic kit after a car crash cost him his left arm. The band performed 'Rock of Ages' and 'Hysteria' on Wednesday before they ended the show with 'Pour Some Sugar on Me.' Def Leppard played to a crowd of standing fans and performed each song in. According to Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was written "by accident at the end of the Hysteria sessions." It's funny how things work out the song turned out to be one of the most important recordings by the popular Brit-rock band.
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