Def Leppard News - RICK SAVAGE On The Making Of DEF LEPPARD's HYSTERIA Single

Thursday, 29th November 2018

RICK SAVAGE On The Making Of DEF LEPPARD's HYSTERIA Single

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Def Leppard bassist Rick Savage is featured in a new video clip talking about Hysteria on YouTube.

The third in a new series of promo videos to promote The Story So Far...The Best Of Def Leppard greatest hits release.

Sav talked about the song Hysteria, his love of listening to it and performing it live, writing the song in mid 1985, recording the song and the song title.

Interestingly in previous interviews Sav said he came up with the first guitar part in Dublin with Phil before taking it to Holland with the rest of the band.

View the full video via the playlist link below along with the so far released tracks from the album.

These include the audio of 'We All Need Christmas', 'Personal Jesus (Remix)' and the 'Rock On (Radio Edit)' and the new 'Personal Jesus' promo video.

Visit the Album News section. For more news on new music (based on band member quotes) dating back to January 2011.

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Rick Savage Interview Quotes

Hysteria

"Another track I'd like to talk about from The Story So Far Disc 1. It's one of my all time favourites. It's Hysteria. It's one of those songs I never kinda get tired of listening to. Never ever get tired of playing. For me it's the highlight of the night when we play the song. There's just a special bond between the audience and the band. Particularly on that song. I don't really know why. It's just that we all sort of come together and...it's just one of those songs that just like the band love, the crowd love as a mutual appreciation."

Writing The Song

"And I remember coming up with the verse idea which is just this very simple jangle. When we were recoding. We were in Paris recording some of the tracks for the Hysteria album. And I just kind of played it to Phil. I played it to Joe. Joe didn't like it initially. I think I remember him saying it sounded too much like a Police song. That we shouldn't be going down there. Oh maybe OK. I played it to Phil and he went no, it's fantastic, it's brilliant. And by the way I've got this bit that'll fit onto it and Phil had this idea for the bridge. 'I gotta know tonight' and it literally just glued right on to the end of this idea that I had."

"And from then there was too much of a song to be sort of ignored. And I think pretty much soon after that Steve came up with the idea of just the chorus chords and the little guitar parts that feature within it. And by that point we got Mutt involved and you know him and Joe just basically finished the thing off. ."

Song Title

"At that point in time it didn't have a title. But when Mutt and Joe came up with this Hysteria idea that's when Rick sort of went well that's what we should call the album. You know I mean it's a great album title. It's a great title. And we went yeah. So it all fell into place. the song came into being. It became sort of the album track of the album which Hysteria to me is kind of a greatest hits in its own right. But It's one of my favourite songs as I say. And it's a buzz to play every single night. It's one of the few songs where I still listen to it and go that's cool."

Listen to and view all the related videos for the album on this YouTube playlist.

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