Born on this day, Rick Allen, drums, Def Leppard, (1987 UK No.6 single Animal, and 1987 world wide No.1 album Hysteria, 1988 US No.1 single Love Bites). Allen lost his left arm in an accident after crashing his Corvette Stingray on the A57 outside Sheffield in England in 1984. There are a mash-up of influences on this song, which is typical of Def Leppard, whose frontman Joe Elliott told us, Everything Ive ever listened to seeps in. Joe cant always identify the specific influences, but the first record he bought was Sugar, Sugar, which was a huge hit for the cartoon band The Archies in 1969. Near the end of that song, there is a line that goes Pour a little sugar on me, baby, which Elliott says was at least subconscious inspiration for this song. The lyrics started out as phonetic sounds to fit the music, which they refined later into actual words. Joe says that this was done in the style of Bang A Gong (Get It On) by T. Rex, which contains vaguely lascivious lyrics that dont make any sense (a hubcap, diamond star halo?) but sound great.https://youtube/watch?v=0UIB9Y4OFPs
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:43:01 +0000
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