Peel appreciated Elliott’s chutzpah and played the EP on his BBC radio show. Ambitious from the start, Elliott successfully promoted the EP by jumping onstage at Sheffield University during a DJ set by legendary UK radio personality John Peel and handing him the recording. To further season the mix, Def Leppard inserted a clanging cowbell and a flanged guitar effect into the intro, which they replaced with piano when they redid the song for 1993’s Retro-Active. As simple as early KISS, the song is driven by a propulsive, repeated guitar riff, then briefly shifts gears for the bridge and chorus.
There are attitude-laced lead vocals, double-entendres about fast bikes and fast girls, and a blazing guitar lead. In addition to covering all of the tropes of heavy rock, it shudders with youthful exuberance and authenticity. track that wasn’t redone for their 1980 debut On Through the Night, is a fist-raising, nearly three-minute-long introduction to the testosterone-laden rockers. The opening track, “Ride Into the Sun,” the only E.P. In late 1978, shortly after Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott turned 19, the vocalist borrowed a little more than $200 from his dad and the band entered Fairview Studio in Hull, England to record three songs for The Def Leppard E.P. The Early Metal-Ish Years Ride Into the Sun And songs by other bands that Def Leppard covered and dueted on, exhibiting both their broad musical tastes and affinity for a good tune. This chameleonic ability to mutate when necessary allowed them to thrive through scenes with which they vibed (New Wave of British Heavy Metal, glam, country) and survive those that didn’t compliment their long hair and spandex outfits (punk, grunge, EDM, hip-hop).ĭef Leppard’s catalog can be broken up into four categories: The most metallic songs that were heralded by the rock press during the NWOBHM movement the polished mega-hits starting with “Bringin’ on the Heartbreak” and progressing through the singles that propelled both Pyromania and its follow up, Hysteria, to Diamond status (10 million sales) deeper ‘90s album cuts that demonstrated Def Leppard’s penchant for experimentation and efforts to shift their sound to be accepted by fans that no longer cherished glam metal. Since they emerged from Sheffield in 1977, Def Leppard have blended rock and influences into an eclectic catalog that helped lay the foundation for various music movements. At some shows, the album version gets performed, while at others they play the edited version instead.If you’ve only listened to one or two songs from Def Leppard’s decades-long recording career, you probably don’t know just how versatile England’s most popular hard rock bands has been. In its single release, "Rocket" was heavily edited from its original length of 6:34 for radio airplay, but would omit many of the portions that greatly distinguished the track from the rest of the album. The words "Love" and "Bites" (from "Love Bites") are also used as a sonic effect midway throughout the song, in order to replicate the sounds of a rocket launch through musical samples. Producer Mutt Lange used backmasking effects to feature the line "We're fighting with the gods of war" (from "Gods of War") sung backward throughout the track, though this sample was omitted from the single version of the song. The song features nods to other tracks on Hysteria. It was the sixth (seventh in the US) and final single release, coming out in January 1989 and hitting the Top 15 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. "Rocket" is a song recorded by English rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria.
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