Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out, and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria. 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.

Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, during a production break, lead singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with two weeks earlier on an acoustic guitar. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitars, backing vocals), which has been the band's most stable line-up. 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' was ranked #2 on VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of the 80s' in 2006.ĭef Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 23 July 1988, behind 'Hold On to the Nights' by Richard Marx.

'Pour Some Sugar on Me' is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria.

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