I began playing around with it on an acoustic guitar in the control room. Towards the end of the ‘Hysteria’ sessions. I’d had the chorus in my head for a while. "It was the best accident ever to happen to me. Before we knew it, Hysteria had jumped back up the charts."Ģ004 Best Of Liner Notes - Joe Elliott Quote Strip-joint anthem, and was getting requests on the radio. Then suddenly, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was getting played in the Florida strip bars and soon became a That might sound blase, but we hadn't made the money back, so we were in debt. When the album was finally released, it stopped selling at three million. "We changed producers, did a lot of re-recording, Rick lost his arm. We had to sell five million copies of Hysteria just to break even because we'd spent four years in the studio working on it." It's easy to get ballads played on the radio, but it's very hard to turn a rock song into a hit. "That song was the most representative of the band, and was exactly what we were trying to do. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Phil Collen Interview Quotes Turned out to be one of the most important songs we ever did. "Kind of got written by accident at the end of the "Hysteria" sessions. It became like one of the most important things we’ve ever done."ġ995 Vault Liner Notes - Joe Elliott Quote "So basically me and him put a really rough backing track together really quickly in like a few hours and then played it over the phone or a few people came back a few days laterĪnd said OK we’ll do it and we did it real quick. And I remember him saying like, ‘This is the best hook I’ve heard for about 5 years’, he said ‘Can we stop doing this’.Ĭause nobody wanted to do anymore, everybody was exhausted they would never have gone for another song." "Mutt had gone for a pee and I picked up the acoustic and started messing around with this thing and he came back in and just asked me what it was probably thinking it was a Stones song or something. "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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