Def Leppard Promises/Back In Your Face Single
Def Leppard 1999
Tracklisting
- 01 - Promises (The Video) - (3:59)
- 02 - Back In Your Face - (3:20)
- 03 - Album Snippets (Demolition Man/Day After Day/All Night) - (2:54)
- 04 - Worlds Collide - (3:43)
- Additional Tracks - On Other Versions
- 05 - Album Snippets (Back In Your Face/Goodbye/All Night) - (2:55)
- 06 - Under My Wheels - (3:20) - (Remix)
- 07 - Pour Some Sugar On Me - (4:27)
- Enhanced CD Videos
- 01 - Promises - (3:59)
- UK Release Date - 12th July 1999.
- US Release Date - 24th May 1999.
- Format - CD/Enhanced CD/CASS/Promo 7 Inch.
- Producer - Pete Woodroffe/Def Leppard.
- UK Record Label - Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury.
- US Record Label - Mercury.
- Special Formats - UK CD1 Enhanced CD featuring Promises video.
- Special Formats - European CD single featuring 'Under My Wheels'.
- Special Formats - US 7 Inch Jukebox Promo featuring 'PSSOM'.
- UK Chart - 41 (24th July 1999/1 week on chart)
- US Chart - 102
- US Rock Chart - 1
- UK Rock Chart - 1 (24th July 1999/42 weeks on chart)
- From The Album - Euphoria
Buy 'Promises/Back In Your Face' Online
Band Members
- Lead Vocals - Joe Elliott
- Bass - Rick Savage
- Guitars - Phil Collen
- Guitars - Vivian Campbell
- Drums - Rick Allen
- Guitars - Steve Clark - (Track 05 only)
Single Notes By dltourhistory
The first single from 'Euphoria' was released in July 1999.
'Promises' was the first single and only major hit from the album.
It did well on the US rock charts.
It failed to reach the UK Top 40 due to the single being released weeks after the album had been out and therefore not capitalising on good pre-album press and a high profile TV appearance.
It still managed to reach number 41 despite this.
This was the first and only UK single to be released as a Double A-Side.
The UK 2CD featured an enhanced CD1 plus album snippets of three tracks.
CD2 had 'Back In Your Face' as the lead song and a new B-Side called 'World's Collide' that sounds like an out-take from the 'Slang' album sessions.
The European single also featured Alice Cooper cover 'Under My Wheels' from a tribute album and three different album snippets.
Although 'Under My Wheels' is not listed as a remix the song was remixed and different from the original tribute album release version.
Enhanced Video/Audio
The UK CD1 was enhanced with the promo video.
A black screen appears with a promo pic of the band in the center of the screen and the video with control options in the middle.
The video is an 67.9mb .mov quicktime file.
The screen also shows options to read the Euphoria biography and the song lyrics which display with a screenshot from the video as a backdrop.
The Enhanced CD single listed the title song as 'Promises (The Video)' on the CD label and inner sleeve even though it was an audio track.
The video itself was only available when the CD was put into a CD-ROM drive.
Joe Elliott 1999 'Under My Wheels' Interview Quote
"The version on 'Humanary Stew' sounds awful, so we've gone in and done a complete remix."
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