BRUTAL Album HAD to SELL 5 Million Units JUST to BREAK EVEN…11th Hour Hit SAVED it—Professor of Rock

What do Queen’s We Will Rock You, The Beatles’ Come Together, Aerosmith’s Walk This Way, and AC/DC’s Back in Black all have in common? Well, today’s featured song Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard. Each of these songs played a role in the creation of this 11th-hour hybrid track. Actually, Joe Elliot didn’t think it was worth recording. And just wanted to save it for the next album. I mean, Def Leppard had been in the studio for years working on Hysteria and were ready to be done. But when their producer Mutt Lange heard him playing it, he said that they had to do it. HAD TO… It was the best hook he’d heard in 5 years. IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL. Because IT BECAME the most important track on the record...it saved the album from being a failure and turned it into a blockbuster it single-handedly turned everything around. So “Step inside…” join us for Professor of Rock.

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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue, What It Takes by Aerosmith, and Your Love by The Outfield.

I always love doing this segment. It’s an homage to Casey Kasem. Just like many of you, I listened to his show, the American Top 40, every single week… rooting for my favorite songs to top the charts. You know, sometimes we cover a song that made it into the Top 5… but had it been released a month earlier or later, it would have hit the top spot. Today, we’ve got one of those tracks. This one should’ve been #1… It finished at #2 and many will be shocked to find out it missed out on #1 because of Richard Marx…I’m talking about Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me, from their 1987 blockbuster Hysteria.

Ya know, Def Leppard pretty much marched through hell to create their long-awaited follow-up to 1983’s Pyromania… It would be a long 4 years between the two albums. During that time drummer Rick Allen “The Thunder-god” was in a horrific car accident. And although he survived, he lost an arm… it was absolutely devastating. Especially for a drummer. But his bandmates stuck by him all the way. And amazingly, Rick learned to play with one arm.

There were other obstacles as well… from a rotating cast of producers to endless hours recording and re-recording in the studio, just making Hysteria was an arduous three-year task. It also turned out to be one of the most expensive albums ever produced… reportedly needing to sell 5 million copies just to break even. Many of these things we’ve covered so we won’t repeat it.