Def Leppard skilled a flashback second to game-changing 1987 hit “Pour Some Sugar On Me” as they completed upcoming album Diamond Star Halos.
That single, which secured success for troubled fourth LP Hysteria, was a late addition to the observe record, though the challenge was already horribly late and over price range. Frontman Joe Elliott occurred to play a guitar riff he’d been enthusiastic about for a short time, and producer “Mutt” Lange jumped on it. In consequence, “Pour Some Sugar On Me” turned the band’s signature track.
In a brand new Billboard interview, Elliott recalled that the band had recorded 14 songs for Diamond Star Halos — and regarded the LP full — earlier than guitarist Phil Collen got here up with the thought for “Kick.” The singer recalled: “Phil rang me up and mentioned, ‘I’ve obtained this different track…however we’re accomplished. And I’m like, ‘Effectively, it’s open-ended. There’s no supply date. There’s no document deal but. Ship me an MP3.’ So he despatched it to us, band-wide, and Sav [bassist Rick Savage] was the primary one to remark, ‘OMG – ‘Sugar,’ anybody?’”
Collen mentioned the observe “represented the place we had been at as nicely,” including: “It’s obtained that glam rock really feel, that hand-clap groove, huge vocals. It was only a no-brainer. It was not solely that it’s obtained to be on the album, [but] it’s obtained to be the primary single as nicely.”
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Elliott agreed: “It’s a stadium anthem, and we had been about to enter stadiums,” referencing their postponed tour with Motley Crue, Poison and Joan Jett, which kicks off in June. “We didn’t write it for that motive, however Phil’s at all times making an attempt to write down the following ‘Sugar’ or ‘We Will Rock You’ Or ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.’ All of us are, however he truly got here up with one, and it’s like, ‘Yeah, we’ve obtained to do this,’ so now it’s a 15-song document.”
He went on to notice: “Had we accomplished that tour once we had been imagined to, we’d have been doing the tour with no new music. Now we’re doing it with a brand new album to advertise, which places a very totally different slant on it. I feel the actual fact we’re going on the market refreshed and energized by new music that we will incorporate into the present, which we wouldn’t have been in a position to do in 2020, goes to make an enormous distinction in the best way we current ourselves.”
Diamond Star Halos is out Might 27.
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