…to Rick Allen living up to his “Thunder God” persona… The band took care of the rest, as director Wayne Isham expertly showcased their rousing performance throughout - from the theatrics of Phil Collen and Steve Clark playing the song’s monster riffs as only they can… Subtle enhancements were also made to the music video’s audio track, which made a huge difference: inserting the sound effect of an ever-present concert audience buzzing throughout the song’s performance sweetening the song’s shout-out-loud chorus with a minor echo to further get across the atmospherics of a jam-packed arena.Ĭollectively, these improvements worked splendidly in encapsulating a Def Leppard concert experience. The concert music video version also added a whole new element of pulse-quickening energy to the song, effectively capturing the anticipation and excitement of Def Leppard’s Hysteria in-the-round show: starting with frenetic shots of the tour’s massive lighting rigs and a draped-off stage (not to mention Rick Savage fooling around for the camera, to the amusement of viewers)… Hey! Hey!” from the song’s album version. version”) undoubtedly improved on the “building demolition” video premise, just as the band had hoped.įor starters, it featured a much more powerful opening: the impactful “Love is like a bomb, bomb, bomb…” extended intro instead of the tame-by-comparison “Step inside, walk this way, you and me, babe. It was light-hearted and even brought to mind the band’s memorable “Me & My Wine” music video, perhaps as its pseudo-sequel: that same rowdy bunch of guys still refuse to move out, even now as their building is being demolished!īut was this music video and its claustrophobic setting effective in capturing the magnitude of a song like “Pour Some Sugar On Me”? No.Įnter the “live in concert” music video version. version”) featured the band performing the song while confined to a house falling apart around them… The “Pour Some Sugar On Me” music video played a vital role in the song’s epic success, but it required two attempts to get it right. Def Leppard: Pour Some Sugar On Me Music Video (Take Two) In other words, all of Def Leppard’s greatest hits albums. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” is also included on the band’s Vault, Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection, and The Story So Far releases. release occurred several months earlier, in September 1987.) Most compilations use the extended music video-style intro.Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar On Me” single was released in the U.S. 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. The American video was edited from the band’s full-length 1989 video release, Live: In the Round, in Your Face, recorded at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, CO, in February 1988. 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 American MTV. The first version shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House at Stillorgan, Dublin) while it is being demolished by a wrecking ball and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker. Two different music videos for the song were produced. In 2012 due to royalty conflicts 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). In 2006, VH1 ranked the song number 2 on its list of the “100 Greatest Songs of the ’80s.” MTV ranked “Pour Some Sugar on Me” number 1 in its “Top 300 Videos of All Time” countdown in May 1991.
The song reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (denied the top spot by “Hold On to the Nights” by Richard Marx), number 18 in the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the ARIA charts (Australia). The somewhat delayed success of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” (due to the new promo release) helped send Hysteria to number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, selling four million copies during the single’s run.
“Pour Some Sugar on Me” is considered the band’s signature song, and was ranked #2 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the 80s” in 2006. 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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