Pour some sugar on yourself, because British heavy metal legends Def Leppard are returning to Australia. There are two stories as to how the lyric came about. The first is that Joe Elliot asked Mutt Lange if he wanted one lump or two in his tea, to which Lange responded, “I don’t care, just pour some sugar on me.” The other is producer Mutt Lange overheard Elliot “playing around on the acoustic guitar singing ‘pour some sugar on me'”, and he insisted the song be fleshed out. Elliot believes that the first record he ever bought, 'Sugar Sugar” by The Archies, was probably his subliminal inspiration for this track, as that song contains the very similar lyric “pour a little sugar on it, baby”.Įlliot was also inspired by the recent success of Run DMC’s groundbreaking collaboration with Aerosmith on “Walk This Way”. Elliot explained in 2000:Īll of the sudden, rock and rap did mix, so we wrote our own.īecause Hysteria was already so far behind schedule and cost so much at that point, the record company originally did not want the band to spend more time and money finishing it to include it on the record, but Lange convinced them to allow it.

Released as the second UK single for the album, it reached a very respectable #18 there. It had similar success in Australia and New Zealand. About the song: Good Morning Starshine the Earth Says Hello is a new viral TikTok Audio with the name original sound fknlettuce. In the US, it was Hysteria’s fourth single – released a full seven months after the album had come out. The line was so odd that it earned Willy Wonka some stares from the main and supporting characters in the 2005 musical comedy Charlie and the. At first it was “a complete failure” with rock stations, and the song “was close to being shelved”.

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However, when producer Mutt Lange remixed it for pop stations, 70 of them picked the song up and “it exploded” across the nation, rocketing to #2 on the pop chart and finally driving the eleven-month-old Hysteria to the top of the albums chart in July of 1988.

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