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Pour Some Sugar on Me

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by the English rock bandDef Leppard from their 1987 albumHysteria. It reached number two on the USUSBillboard Hot 100 chart on 23 July 1988. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is considered the band'ssignature song,[1] and was ranked number two onVH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006.[2]

"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Single byDef Leppard
from the albumHysteria
B-side
  • "I Wanna Be Your Hero" (UK)
  • "Ring of Fire" (US)
Released
  • 7 September 1987 (UK)
  • April 1988 (US)
  • 4 June 2012 (re-recorded version)
Recorded
  • December 1986 – January 1987 (original)
  • 2012 (re-recorded version)
Genre
Length
  • 4:27 (album version)
  • 4:24 (single version)
  • 4:52 (Hysteria video edit version)
  • 5:35 (extended version)
  • 4:21 (2012 re-recorded version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Women"
(1987)		"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
(1987)		"Hysteria"
(1987)
Audio sample
Music videos
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" (UK version) onYouTube
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" (U.S. version) onYouTube

Musical style

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"Pour Some Sugar on Me" has been labelled as aglam metal,[3][4][5][6][7]hard rock,[8]arena rock,[9] andpop rock[10] song with elements ofindustrial rock andelectropop.[11]

Production

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Near the end of recording the albumHysteria, during a production break, lead singerJoe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar. ProducerRobert John "Mutt" Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song.[12]

Although already behind schedule, Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one.[citation needed] Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the fifth track onHysteria.[13]

Elliott claims the song was at least partially inspired by theAerosmith andRun-DMC version of "Walk This Way", which made him realize the potential of the mixing ofrap and rock.[14]

The song's lyrics were written after Elliott and Lange went to opposite ends of the studio control room and delivered stream-of-consciousness words into a pair of dictaphones while the song's backing track played. They then swapped dictaphones and tried to determine what each other's words were. In theHysteria episode of theClassic Albums documentary series, Elliott said he thought he heard the phrase "love is like a bomb" on Lange's tape "and that set the whole tone for the lyric."[15] (However, some of the key lyrics as well as the overall theme of the song are similar to those of the song "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.)

Two intros were recorded for the song: the studio version has "Step inside, walk this way, you and me babe, hey hey!" and then cuts immediately to the guitar, while the single version has "love is like a bomb" and a slightly longer progression.

By the spring of 1988,Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, which was not enough to cover the album's $5 million production costs. Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and finally released it as the fourth single in North America.

Reception

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The somewhat delayed success of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (due to the new promo release) helped sendHysteria to number 1 on theTop Pop Albums chart (now theBillboard 200) a year after release, selling four million copies during the single's run. The song reached number 2 on theUSBillboard Hot 100, number 18 in theUK Singles Chart and number 26 on theAustralian Singles Chart.[16][17]

MTV ranked "Pour Some Sugar on Me" number 1 in its "Top 300 Videos of All Time" countdown in May 1991. In 2006,VH1 ranked the song number 2 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s."[2]

In 2012, due to royalty conflicts[18] with their record company regarding profits from online sales, the band re-recorded the song, along with "Rock of Ages", under the title "Pour Some Sugar on Me 2012" and released both digitally in June 2012 (similarly, a re-recorded version of the single "Hysteria" entitled "Hysteria (2013 Re-recorded Version)" was also released online the following year).

The song is a mainstay of classic rock and classic hits stations. In the 2010s, it was added to some adult contemporary stations despite never hitting that chart.[a]

Music video

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Two differentmusic videos for the song were produced. The first version (directed byRussell Mulcahy) shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House atStillorgan,Dublin) while it is being demolished by awrecking ball and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker played byRosemary Henderson, who at the time was appearing on Saturday morning children's television in Ireland.

Filmed before the song became a hit in the United States, a second video simply of the band playing the song live was released for AmericanMTV. The American video (directed byWayne Isham) was edited from the band's full-length 1989 video release,Live: In the Round, in Your Face, recorded atMcNichols Sports Arena in Denver, CO, in February 1988. The music video for the song had an extended, distortion-laden intro in lieu of the album version's "Step inside, walk this way" intro. Most compilations use the extended music video-style intro.

Track listings

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7": Bludgeon Riffola / Mercury / 870 298-7 (US)[19]

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
  2. "Ring of Fire"

US 12"

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (extended version)
  2. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (album version)
  3. "I Wanna Be Your Hero"

CD single: Bludgeon Riffola / Mercury / 8724872 (Germany)[20]

  1. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (extended version)
  2. "Release Me"
  3. "Rock of Ages" (live medley)

Personnel

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Charts

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This song is notable for being the only Def Leppard song to get airplay onadult contemporary stations despite not registering at all on the AC charts while "Two Steps Behind" did, reaching No. 29.[21]

Weekly charts

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Chart (1987–1989)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[22]26
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[23]22
Canada 30 Retail Singles (RPM)[24]16
Ireland (IRMA)[25]8
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[26]94
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[27]16
UK Singles (OCC)[28]18
USBillboard Hot 100[29]2
USMainstream Rock (Billboard)[30]25
West Germany (GfK)[31]50
Chart (2019)Peak
position
USHot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[32]10

Year-end charts

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Chart (1988)Position
USBillboard Hot 100[33]19

Certifications

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RegionCertificationCertified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ)[34]3× Platinum90,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[35]Platinum600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[36]Gold500,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Their songTwo Steps Behind in 1992, however, did hit the AC chart

Notes

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  1. ^"Readers' Poll: The Best Hair Metal Songs of All Time".Rolling Stone. 20 June 2012. Retrieved12 March 2020.
  2. ^ab"Rock On The Net: VH1: 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's: 1–50".
  3. ^"Readers' Poll: The 10 Greatest Hair Metal Songs".Rolling Stone. 5 February 2014. Retrieved17 February 2019.
  4. ^Popoff, Martin (2014).The big book of hair metal : the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade. Minneapolis, MN. p. 146.ISBN 978-0-7603-4546-7.OCLC 858901054.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^"The Ultimate Hair Metal Party Playlist".Kerrang!. 5 April 2018. Retrieved4 March 2021.
  6. ^Matt, Metal (21 February 2014)."Achy-Breaky Too: Five Hair Metal Jams Destined For Rap Redux".MetalSucks. Retrieved14 March 2021.
  7. ^"Tom Cruise to sing Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi on 'Rock Of Ages' soundtrack".NME. 2 May 2012. Retrieved28 June 2021.
  8. ^Wiederhorn, Jon (27 March 2020)."Def Leppard Reflects on the 'Early Years' and Why Those Iron Maiden Comparisons Were 'Tiresome'".Billboard. Retrieved12 February 2021.
  9. ^"Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s".Loudwire. 13 January 2016. Retrieved12 February 2021.
  10. ^"Top 100 '80s Rock Albums".Ultimate Classic Rock. 12 July 2015. Retrieved12 February 2021.
  11. ^Brennan, Collin (5 February 2018)."10 Hair Metal Albums That Don't Suck".Consequence. Retrieved1 January 2025.
  12. ^McDonald, Dani (14 June 2018)."How We Made: Def Leppard's singer reveals Pour Some Sugar On Me was an accident".Stuff. Retrieved12 January 2019.
  13. ^Newman, Melinda (August 2017)."Def Leppard's 'Hysteria' Turns 30: An Oral History of the Album's Painful Path to Victory".Billboard. Retrieved12 January 2019.
  14. ^Johnston, Maura (3 August 2017)."Def Leppard's 'Hysteria': 10 Things You Didn't Know".Rolling Stone. Retrieved12 January 2019.
  15. ^"Twitch".Twitch. Retrieved12 January 2019.
  16. ^Chart positions @ Finnishcharts.com Retrieved June 2009
  17. ^Warwick, Neil; Kutner, Jon; Brown, Tony (2004).The complete book of the British charts: singles & albums. Omnibus Press.ISBN 9781844490585.
  18. ^Halperin, Shirley (August 2012)."Pour Some Sugar Again: Why Def Leppard is Rerecording Hits".The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved12 January 2019.
  19. ^Def Leppard Discography - Pour Some Sugar on Me 870 298-7 (USA)
  20. ^"Def Leppard website". Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved14 May 2011.
  21. ^"Def Leppard Chart History".Billboard.
  22. ^"Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me".ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  23. ^"Top RPM Singles: Issue 8588."RPM.Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  24. ^"RPM 30 Retal Singles 1987"(PDF).RPM. 12 June 1987. Retrieved20 June 2023.
  25. ^"The Irish Charts – Search Results – Pour Some Sugar On Me".Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  26. ^"Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me" (in Dutch).Single Top 100. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  27. ^"Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me".Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  28. ^"Official Singles Chart Top 100".Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  29. ^"Def Leppard Chart History (Hot 100)".Billboard. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  30. ^"Def Leppard Chart History (Mainstream Rock)".Billboard. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  31. ^"Offiziellecharts.de – Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me"(in German).GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  32. ^"Def Leppard Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)".Billboard. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  33. ^(kanlen), Kanlen (11 January 2012)."1988-Billboard Year-End Hot 100 (1988年告示牌年終排行榜)".
  34. ^"New Zealand single certifications – Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me". Radioscope. Retrieved28 January 2025.TypePour Some Sugar on Me in the "Search:" field.
  35. ^"British single certifications – Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me".British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved16 December 2022.
  36. ^"American single certifications – Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me".Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved7 August 2020.
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