Pour Some Sugar on Me

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"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Song
B-side
  • "I Wanna Be Your Hero" (UK)
  • "Ring of Fire" (US)

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 23 July 1988, behind "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006.[1]

Production

Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, during a production break, lead singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar. [citation needed] Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. [citation needed]

Although already behind schedule, Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. [citation needed] Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria. [citation needed] By the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time). [citation needed] Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and finally released it as the fourth single in North America. [citation needed]

Reception

The somewhat delayed success of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (due to the new promo release) sent sales of Hysteria higher than the band ever imagined. [citation needed] It reached number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, and sold four million copies during the single's run. The song reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (denied the top spot by "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx), number 18 in the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the ARIA charts (Australia).[2][3]

MTV ranked "Pour Some Sugar on Me" number 1 in its "Top 300 Videos of All Time" countdown in May 1991. In 2006, VH1 ranked the song number 2 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s."[1] AVN ranked the song as the "#1 song used by strippers during their set" of all time. [citation needed]

In 2012 due to royalty conflicts [citation needed] with their record company regarding profits from online sales, the band re-recorded the song, along with "Rock of Ages", under the title "Pour Some Sugar on Me 2012" and released both digitally in June 2012 (similarly, a re-recorded version of the single "Hysteria" entitled "Hysteria (2013 Re-Recorded Version)" was also released online the following year).

Music video

Two different music videos for the song were produced. The first version shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House at Stillorgan, Dublin) while it is being demolished by a wrecking ball and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker. Generally disliked by the band members, [citation needed] and filmed before the song became a hit in the United States, a second video simply of the band playing the song live was released for American MTV. The American video was edited from the band’s full-length 1989 video release, “Live: In the Round in Your Face”, recorded at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, CO, in February 1988. The music video for the song had an extended, distortion-laden intro in lieu of the album version’s “Step inside, walk this way” intro. Most compilations use the extended music video-style intro.

Intros

There are two intros to the song. The studio version which has "Step inside, walk this way, you and me babe, hey hey!" and then cuts right to the guitar; and the single version which has "love is like a bomb" which has a slightly longer progression to it.

Track listing

7": Bludgeon Riffola / Mercury / 870 298-7 (USA)

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
  2. "Ring of Fire"

US Vinyl, 12"

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" [Extended Version]
  2. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" [Album Version]
  3. "I Wanna Be Your Hero"

CD single: Bludgeon Riffola / Mercury / 8724872 (Germany)[4]

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" [Extended Version]
  2. "Release Me"
  3. "Rock of Ages" [Live Medley]

Personnel

Def Leppard

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1987–88) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[5] 26
Canada 30 Retail Singles (RPM)[6] 16
Canada 100 Singles (RPM)[7] 22
Ireland (IRMA)[8] 8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9] 94
songid field is MANDATORY FOR GERMAN CHARTS 50
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] 16
UK Singles (OCC)[11] 18
US Billboard Hot 100[12] 2
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)[13] 25

Year-end charts

Chart (1988) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 19

Notes

  1. ^ a b "JdjdjRock On The Net: VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's: 1–50".
  2. ^ Chart positions @ Finnishcharts.com Retrieved June 2009
  3. ^ Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner, Tony Brown (2004) The complete book of the British charts: singles & albums Omnibus Press, 2004
  4. ^ "Def Leppard website". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2011. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  6. ^ "RPM 30 Retail Singles" (PDF). RPM. 48 (24). Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. 1 October 1988. OCLC 352936026. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  7. ^ "RPM 100 Singles" (PDF). RPM. 48 (18). Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. 20 August 1988. OCLC 352936026. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  8. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Pour Some Sugar on Me". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  9. ^ "Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  10. ^ "Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  11. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  12. ^ "Def Leppard Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  13. ^ "Def Leppard – Chart history". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  14. ^ (kanlen), Kanlen. "1988-Billboard Year-End Hot 100 (1988年告示牌年終排行榜)".

External links

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