Def Leppard

Released: July 5, 1988

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Richard Savage Robert John Lange Steve Clark

Producer: Robert John Lange

Love is like a bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb
Bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb
Bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb
Love is like a bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb
I'm hot
Ayy, ayy
Ayy, ayy, ayy
Aye, aye
Aye, aye
Aye, aye, ayeaye
Aye, aye, ayeaye
Ayy, ayy

Love is like a bomb, baby, come and get it on
Livin' like a lover with a radar phone
Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp
Demolition woman, can I be your man? (be your man)

Razzling and dazzling, now flash a little light
Television lover, baby, go all night
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little Miss Innocent, sugar me, yeah
Yeah

C'mon
Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

(Pour some sugar on me) Ooh, in the name of love
(Pour some sugar on me) Come on, fire me up
(Pour your sugar on me) I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah

Listen
Red light, yellow light, green light, go
Crazy little woman in a one man show
Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love
Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up (loosen up)
A-loosen up

You gotta please a little, squeeze a little, tease a little more
Easy operator, come a-knockin' on my door
Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet
Little Miss Innocent, sugar me, yeah
Yeah
Give a little more

Take a bottle, shake it up
Break the bubble, break it up

(Pour some sugar on me) Ooh, in the name of love
(Pour some sugar on me) Come on, fire me up
(Pour your sugar on me) Oh, I can't get enough
I'm hot, sticky sweet
From my head to my feet, yeah

You've got the peaches, I've got the cream
Sweet to taste, saccharine
'Cause I'm hot (hot), so hot (hot), sticky sweet
From my head, my head (head, head), to my feet
Do you take sugar?
One lump or two?

(Take a bottle) Take a bottle, (shake it up) shake it up
(Break the bubble), break it up (break it up)

(Pour some sugar on me) Ooh, in the name of love
(Pour some sugar on me) Come on, fire me up
(Pour your sugar on me) Oh, I can't get enough
(Pour some sugar on me) Oh, in the name of love

(Pour some sugar on me) Get it, come get it
(Pour your sugar on me) Ohh
(Pour some sugar on me) Yeah, hey sugar me

In 1977, Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis were students at a secondary school in Sheffield, England. They had a band called Atomic Mass. Lead singer Joe Elliott joined later that year, and suggested a new band name. Within 10 years, that name, Def Leppard, became one of the most recognised in English rock music. To date, they have released more than 40 singles.

Def Leppard was a definitive part of the new wave of British heavy metal bands in the late 1970s. Their first three albums had tremendous momentum, each outselling the one before. Then, after the release of Pyromania in 1983, drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident. The band stuck by him through his recovery and retraining.

When Def Leppard came back, they came back hard. Their fourth album, 1987’s Hysteria, was a hard rock masterpiece that took the world by storm. By then the music video had matured as a film style, and Hysteria’s singles and videos had enough pop, sex, colour, and glam to put it over the top. Hysteria was one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980s.

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