"I was working on another song and Mutt, I think it was only me and him in Holland at the time, everybody else was on a break cause I was doing vocals so no point in anyone else being around so they’d go home for a couple of weeks." I remember the record company people telling me like months afterwards when they were checking back over things that song was pretty much responsible for selling 4 million albums in three months which is a phenomenal In America it was huge!, I mean it was really, really huge. I mean it was a so-so hit in England, I think it kinda got to like number 18, it just broke the top twenty. "Well PSSOM was probably the most important song we’ve ever done because it was totally responsible for kicking Hysteria from big album to extremely big album. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes On the same day this single was released the band started a three night run of shows at Hammersmith Odeon in London. Both this song and 'Animal' were included on the 'Armageddon It' UK CD single in March 1988. The only UK 'Hysteria' album single not to be released on its own CD single.
The first week of release saw the single released on regular 7", 12" and cassette featuring new B Side song 'I Wanna Be Your Hero' and the Extended Version of PSSOM. The 14th was the release date of the special edition 7" shaped disc. This has now been corrected to the 7th via a 1987 press release and UK chart information. Previous UK single discographies (including one in the 'Action' booklet from 1994) had the release date listed as 14th September. The song would be released as a single in the USA in May 1988 and reached its peak position of #2 on the same day that Hysteria got to Number One after 49 weeks on the album chart. The 'Hysteria' album had just ended it's sole week at Number One having debuted there on Their first ever Top Ten single and the first UK chart success. The follow up to 'Animal' which had reached Number Six in August giving the band 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. "This is the best hook I’ve heard for about 5 years."ĭef Leppard released their classic Pour Some Sugar On Me single on this day in 1987 in the UK. The second single from the 'Hysteria' album in the UKĪnd second major hit single for the band in their homeland following on from the Top Ten smash hit 'Animal'. This section looks at the 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' single release.
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