![]() ![]() It was like different running orders, like "Women," "Animal," "Hysteria." "Sugar," so our albums hasn't made its money back, were in debt, and these girls in these strip clubs in Florida keep requesting this song on the local radio because they're dancing to it, because it's got this sexy groove and it's got all the things we were talking about. Went number …And so we're like, "Yeah, this is cool." And in America was really slow and it didn't happen. In England, it was great because it went top 10. Hysteria come out, we'd spent so much time and money on it. Phil Collen: "Well, it tanked at first it. It's lasted this long, it's going to last a bit longer as well I think."ĭef Leppard reflect on the album initially tanking and getting a second life with the breakout success of “Pour Some Sugar On Me”: So from that point of view, the perspiration that went into it and the inspiration that went into it, that reward is the fact that it's being celebrated. And so we're extremely grateful for what it's given us. But, it's up there with all the albums that we used to buy as kids. ![]() And this is difficult for me to say, because it's really something that other people should say. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity and the lifestyle that album has afforded us and the fact that it's gone into folklore, it's one of the big albums. They go, I just don't want to talk about that. Which I know a lot of artists struggle with that. Joe Elliott: "It's hard to think it's 35 years ago, because it's just a constant in your life like shaving or having a shower. ![]() But the real achievement was actually finishing it off and it sounding like it did." So all the other stuff was gravy, especially when it come number one a year later or whatever it was. Being a rock band, a hard rock band, we felt we'd done that with this album and it just felt really good. Because it was everything that we set out to do and more, it was like that thing, going back to that Beatles thing of Sgt. I remember hearing the mixes when Mutt first done them and thinking if my mum's the only person that gets this album, we've achieved it. A few excerpts can be found below, courtesy of Essentials Radio on Apple Music Hits:ĭef Leppard look back on Hysteria 35 years later and discuss their gratitude for the album’s success: ![]()
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