Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad

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"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
Def-Leppard-HaveUever lepcd.jpg
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Adrenalize
B-side
ReleasedAugust 1992 (1992-08)
Length5:20
Label Bludgeon Riffola
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Make Love Like a Man"
(1992)		"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
(1992)		"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"
(1992)

"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" is a song by English hard rock band Def Leppard from their fifth studio album, Adrenalize (1992). In the United States, the song reached number seven on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks charts and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the most successful single from the album in the US. The Acoustic Hippies from Hell, credited on the B-side tracks, was the name used by Def Leppard and the Hothouse Flowers performing together. The song was performed extensively during the Adrenalize and Slang tours but rarely after, most recently being done acoustically during the band's 2019 Vegas residency, and the 2022 Stadium Tour.

Contents

Track listings

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPCD 8 (UK) / 864 151-2 (INT)

  1. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
  2. "From the Inside" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
  3. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Rolling Stones cover) (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
  4. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix cover) (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)

12-inch: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPXP 8 (UK) / INT 864 149-1 / picture disc

This 12-inch single picture disc has a stretched Adrenalize graphic in the cover. On the back side of the picture disc has the picture of Vivian Campbell. The back cardboard has the 12-inch single information and a band picture. Pictures by Ross Halfin. Artwork and Design by Andie Airfix at Satori.

  1. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
  2. "From the Inside" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
  3. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesAugust 1992— Mercury
United Kingdom31 August 1992
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • cassette
Bludgeon Riffola [11]
7 September 199212-inch vinyl [12]
Australia
  • CD
  • cassette
 [13]
United Kingdom14 September 1992CD [14]
Japan6 November 1992Mini-CD
  • Mercury
  • Bludgeon Riffola
 [15]
11 November 1992CD [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Def Leppard – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 1890." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Def Leppard – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  6. ↑ "Def Leppard Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Def Leppard Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  8. ↑ "Def Leppard Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  9. ↑ "The RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1992" (PDF). RPM . Vol. 56, no. 25. 19 December 1992. p. 8. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  10. ↑ "Billboard Top 100 – 1992". Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
  11. ↑ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week . 29 August 1992. p. 17.
  12. ↑ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 5 September 1992. p. 21.
  13. ↑ "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 07/09/92: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 136. 6 September 1992. p. 19.
  14. ↑ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 12 September 1992. p. 19.
  15. ↑ "デフ・レパード | ハブ・ユー・エバー" [Def Leppard | Have You Ever] (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  16. ↑ "デフ・レパード | ハブ・ユー・エバー" [Def Leppard | Have You Ever] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
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