Def Leppard "Poor Some Sugar on Me"
"Pour Some Sugar On Me" is a song recorded by British hard rock band
Def Leppard in
1987 from the album
Hysteria. It reached Number 2 on the
US singles chart, became an MTV classic, and is generally regarded as their
signature song.
Although the band was nearing the end of recording sessions for
Hysteria in 1986, producer
Mutt Lange felt that the album was still lacking a song that would have an appeal beyond the hard rock fans who'd bought
Pyromania. That song came to him during a bathroom break. Singer
Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he'd come up with recently on the guitar, and Lange suggested that the riff be taken a step further. It was a risky move, as everyone in the band had been worn out by the neverending sessions.
By Def Leppard standards, the song was developed and recorded quickly, within two weeks (in contrast to "Animal", which took almost three years) and included as the 12th track on
Hysteria. "Sugar" was released as the second single from the album in the UK, where it reached the Top 20. Its original video had a short butch woman demolishing the house (Mount Merrion House, in Dublin) where the band is playing. But this was deemed not marketable for American audiences, so the song was relegated to a popular track at live shows and rock radio in the US.
