Rocket baby! c'mon, I'll be your satellite of love I will be your, I will be your, I'll be your On a collision course to crash into my heart I can take you through the center of the dark Jack Flash, rocket man, Sergeant Pepper and the band Midnight street magic (ah) crazy people crazy sound White lights, strange city, mad music all around Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer Ah ah At some shows, the album version gets performed, while at others they play the edited version instead. In its single release, "Rocket" was heavily edited from its original length of 6:34 for radio airplay, but would omit many of the portions that greatly distinguished the track from the rest of the album. The words "Love" and "Bites" (from "Love Bites") are also used as a sonic effect midway throughout the song, in order to replicate the sounds of a rocket launch through musical samples. Producer Mutt Lange used backmasking effects to feature the line "We're fighting with the gods of war" (from "Gods of War") sung backward throughout the track, though this sample was omitted from the single version of the song. The song features nods to other tracks on Hysteria. It was the sixth (seventh in the US) and final single release, coming out in January 1989 and hitting the Top 15 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. I believe it was song number 3 in the show: "Women"."Rocket" is a song recorded by English rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. One track on this piece of vinyl/plastic/whatever comes from that live video. Right now we're back making the 5th album, thrilled to bits with everything that's gone on and looking forward to putting out our live concert video In The Round-In Your face (something like that). They wanted a video for the track and since we had such a good time making the "Rocket" video (our childhood, what can we say!), why not give everybody a chance to play and watch "Rocket". You gotta hand it to the Brits for this one 'cause they thought it would be a great follow up to their last single, which was either "Sugar" or "Love Bites" (I've lost track). "January 1989 - In your hands is Def Leppard single #7 from 'Hysteria'. In other countries a live track from Denver was included before the release of ITR-IYF. Various versions of 'The Lunar Mix' were used with different titles and lengths from the Radio Edit up to the Extended Version.Īnother track from Tilburg was also used.
'Release Me' was used as a B-Side in the UK. It also reached Number 12 in the US, 15 in Australia, 5 in New Zealand and 3 in Canada. Their fifth Top 20 and sixth Top 30 single from the album. It gave the band another Top 20 UK hit reaching Number 15. Issued due to the album's continued popularity around the world. 'Rocket' was released as the unexpected final single from the album in the UK. The sixth and last UK single from 'Hysteria' was released in January 1989. News Link - 32 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD Release ROCKET Single In The UK.News Link - 32 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD's ROCKET Single At Number 15 In UK.News Link - 32 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD's ROCKET Single At Number 12 In USA.US Chart - 12 (29th April 1989/13 weeks on chart).UK Chart - 15 (25th February 1989/7 weeks on chart).Special Formats - Canadian 12 Inch/CD/CASS 'Rocket EP' with 'Women' Live Denver 1988/Band message.
Special Formats - Numbered Limited Edition (3,500 copies) 12 Inch Picture Disc.Special Formats - Limited Edition 7 Inch Brit Pack Boxed Set with six postcard factfiles.UK Record Label - Bludgeon Riffola/Phonogram.Artwork And Design - Andie Airfix at Satori.Live Track 06 - Recorded 12/13th February 1988 in Denver, CO, USA.Live Track 02 - Recorded 25th June 1987 in Tilburg, Holland.Engineered By - Ronald Prent (Track 02).Assisted By - John Smit/Malcolm Harper (Track 06).Producer/Engineer - Robert Allen Scovill (Track 06).
Assisted/Engineered By - Nigel Green (Tracks 01/04).Producer - Robert John 'Mutt' Lange/Def Leppard.