Hysteria (Def Leppard song)

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"Hysteria"
Def Leppard hysteria single 2.jpg
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side "Ride into the Sun"
Released
  • 16 November 1987 (UK)
  • January 1988 (US)
  • 19 March 2013 (re-recorded version)
Recorded
  • 1985–1987
  • 2012 (re-recorded version)
Genre Glam metal [1]
Length
  • 5:54 (album version)
  • 3:50 (single edit)
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
(1987)		"Hysteria"
(1987)		"Armageddon It"
(1988)
Music videos
"Hysteria" on YouTube

"Hysteria" is a song by English rock band Def Leppard. It is the tenth track on their 1987 album of the same name and was released as the album's fourth single in November 1987. The song became the band's first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 10.

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Overview

On VH1 Storytellers: Def Leppard, lead singer Joe Elliott revealed that the song title came from drummer Rick Allen. The song features a clean guitar melody and heavily multi-tracked vocals in its chorus. The "extreme" nature of producer Mutt Lange's recording methods is also exampled in the pre-chorus, where the clean guitar chords were recorded one note at a time as opposed to the traditional method of strumming them, in effect "building" a chord by recording the notes that make them up. [2] An acoustic rendition of the song was performed by Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen on the Hysteria edition of VH1's Classic Albums .

Cash Box called it a "solid rocker with sophistication, Supertramp-ish chorus backgrounds and a cutting edge vocal." [3]

Track listing

7": Bludgeon Riffola / Mercury / 870 004-7 (US)

  1. "Hysteria"
  2. "Ride into the Sun"

12": Bludgeon Riffola / Phonogram (UK)

  1. "Hysteria"
  2. "Ride into the Sun"
  3. "Love and Affection" (live)

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / Phonogram / U.K. LEPCD3 / INT. 870 004-2 (UK)

  1. "Hysteria"
  2. "Ride into the Sun"
  3. "Love and Affection" (live)
  4. "I Wanna Be Your Hero"

Other versions

Charts

Chart (1987–1988)Peak
position
Australia (Australian Music Report) [9] 90
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [10] 13
Ireland (IRMA) [11] 19
UK Singles (OCC) [12] 26
US Billboard Hot 100 [13] 10
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [14] 9
US Cash Box [15] 11
Chart (1989)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [16] 77

Certifications

Certifications for "Hysteria"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [17] Silver200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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