
Reflecting on Hysteria, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen previously told the band’s official website: “It exceeded our expectations. On the back of the classic song, the album’s slow-burning ballad also ‘Love Bites’ topped the Hot 100 in January 1989, while Hysteria remained on the US charts for over three years, during which time Def Leppard became one of the biggest bands on the planet.

2 on Billboard’s Top 100 singles chart and it started an explosion of over a million copies of the Hysteria album to be shipped in a single day. You can watch the video above.įirst released in 1988, ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ peaked at No. Def Leppard have released the first video in their new ‘Stories So Far’ series, in which singer Joe Elliott talks about the making of the Yorkshire rockers’ classic song ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ from their landmark album Hysteria.
