And it's strange because we'd been to number one on the album and it had been back and forth. So it was seven yearsīefore we hit real success in the States and it was ten years before we hit it in England. You know because everybody says overnight success but it was actually seven years since we formed when Pyromania broke. "And we were at the age as well where we thought it was about bloody time. But Mutt doesn’t let you get like thatĪnd I’m glad he doesn't he said ‘Look you can do anything you want, if you just maybe don't get it first time you don’t get it first time." It’s the only number one single we’ve ever had in America, it was our first number one single that we've ever had so I mean that kinda made it a little more pleasant for me but at the time it was like ‘I don’t wanna do this song cause I can't!’. The only contribution that I can ever acknowledge to was that the chorus was pulled off another song and I kinda help write the other chorus. "It was something that Mutt and Steve and Phil worked on, I had really hardly any contribution to the song at all. It was a case of taking it and just showing how the English language is an awkward beast. The idea of it was that it's like, love bites, love bleeds.
We're aware of the fact that in Britain, love bites, you guys call them hickeys. When somebody chews on your neck, you get a bruise. Another example of never throwing away an idea!." So I had very little to do with it other than we took the chorus line of the title from another song we’d written called ‘Love Bites’ (That one later became ‘I Wanna Be Your Hero’ on the ‘Retro-Active’ album). I was in my hotel room in Holland working on ‘Rocket’. In it’s original demo form it didn’t sound anything like us. "It was our first ever number one single anywhere in the world. We goofed around with it quite a lot to Lepparddise it. It was actually a country and western song when Mutt Lange played his demo to Steve Clark and I. The song went on to become our first and only number-one U.S. The backing track was recorded live, and it ended up on the record. Steve and I jammed the song out with a drum box, and recorded it. There was a harmony guitar thing that me and Steve did where we orchestrated the chords.
He recently produced his wife's album (Shania Twain's multiplatinum "The Woman in Me"), and it's one of the biggest-selling country releases.įor "Love Bites," we just added Def Leppard guitars to it. Mutt has always been a big fan of country music. When he first showed it to us, it sounded a bit country-and western. It featured a unique cover that wasn't one of the nine segments of the main album cover design. 'Rocket' would go on to be the sixth single from the album in the UK. Only five 7" covers could be used in the UK and six in the USA/Canada.
#Def leppard love bites full
This was the only way to use the single covers to make up the full album. Together with 'Love Bites' and the first four UK 12" single covers, these extra four pieces made up the full 'Hysteria' album cover. In the UK it was advertised as the "Final single from the Hysteria album".įor this reason the special 12" collectors edition of the single featured four extra card sleeves. The release date coincided with US Independence Day and the song would go on to become their one and only Number One single in the USA. It was released on 4th July 1988 reaching Number 11 and spent five weeks on the UK chart. The fifth single to be released from the 'Hysteria' album in the UK. The fifth single to be released fromĭef Leppard released their classic Love Bites single on this day in 1988 in the UK. This section looks at the 'Love Bites' UK single release.
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