Adrenalize

Adrenalize
Studio album by Def Leppard
Released	31 March 1992
Recorded	1988–92 in Dublin; Wisseloord Studios in Amsterdam[1]
Genre	Glam metal hard rock heavy metal
Length	45:22
Label	Mercury/Bludgeon Riffola
Producer	Mike Shipley Def Leppard
Def Leppard chronology
Hysteria (1987) Adrenalize (1992) Slang (1996)
Singles from Adrenalize
"Let's Get Rocked" Released: March 1992 "Make Love Like a Man" Released: June 1992 "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" Released: September 1992 "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" Released: December 1992 (US) "Heaven Is" Released: January 1993 (UK) "Tonight" Released: March 1993 "I Wanna Touch U" Released: 7 July 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Robert Christgau	[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Sputnik Music	[4]

Adrenalize is the fifth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released in 1992 through Mercury Records. The album was the first by the band following the 1991 death of guitarist Steve Clark. It was produced by Mike Shipley and Def Leppard, with Robert John "Mutt" Lange as executive producer. The album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200^[5] and peaked at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.^[6] It is also notable for being the last album released by a band at the time classified as glam metal to garner significant multi-platinum sales, for the album was released in the midst of the grunge explosion of the early 1990s which shifted virtually all bands of the pop-metal genre and the 1980s in general out of the mainstream, and in an ironic twist of fate, the album knocked off the #1 spot was none other than Nevermind.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let's Get Rocked"	Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Mutt Lange, Rick Savage	4:56
2.	"Heaven Is"	Steve Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	3:33
3.	"Make Love Like a Man"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	4:15
4.	"Tonight"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:03
5.	"White Lightning"	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	7:03
6.	"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	4:32
7.	"Personal Property"	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:21
8.	"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"	Collen, Elliott, Lange	5:24
9.	"I Wanna Touch U"	Rick Allen, Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	3:37
10.	"Tear It Down"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Savage	3:38
Total length:			45:22

Japanese bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Miss You in a Heartbeat (Electric Version)"	Collen	5:06
12.	"She's Too Tough"	Elliott	3:39

Deluxe edition (Bonus CD)

In the Clubs, In Your Face – Bonn, Germany 29/05/92
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hysteria" (live)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	7:17
2.	"Photograph" (live)	Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage, Pete Willis	4:44
3.	"Pour Some Sugar on Me" (live)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	5:09
4.	"Let's Get Rocked" (live)	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	5:46

Adrenalize B-sides
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (with Hothouse Flowers)	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	7:43
6.	"Little Wing" (with Hothouse Flowers)	Jimi Hendrix	3:40
7.	"Tonight" (version 2 – demo version)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:24
8.	"Now I'm Here" (live at Wembley Stadium – featuring Brian May)	Brian May	6:03
9.	"Two Steps Behind" (acoustic)	Elliott	4:11
10.	"Tonight" (acoustic – Sun Studios 1993)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:16
11.	"Too Late for Love" (live at Denver 1988)	Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage, Willis	6:04
12.	"Women" (live at Denver 1988)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	6:34

• Tracks 1-4 are taken from the band's Live: In the Clubs, in Your Face EP, recorded at Bonn, Germany, on 29 May 1992
• Tracks 5 & 6 taken from "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" single.
• Tracks 7 & 8 taken from "Tonight" single.
• Track 9 taken from "Make Love Like a Man" U.K. single and "Two Steps Behind" U.S. single.
• Track 10 taken from "Two Steps Behind" single.
• Tracks 11 & 12 taken from "Let's Get Rocked" single.

Personnel

• Joe Elliott – lead vocals
• Phil Collen – all guitars except acoustic guitar on "Tonight", Cockney rhyming rap on "Make Love Like a Man"
• Rick Savage – bass guitar, acoustic guitar on "Tonight"
• Rick Allen – drums

Additional personnel

• The Sideways Mob – backing vocals
• Robert John "Mutt" Lange, John Sykes - backing vocals
• Phil "Crash" Nicholas – keyboard on "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"

Production

• Mike "Bat Ears" Shipley – producer, engineer, mixing
• Def Leppard – producer
• Pete Woodroffe – engineer, programming, sequencing
• Robert John "Mutt" Lange – executive producer
• Robert Scovill – assistant engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• Andie Airfix – art direction
• Pamela Springsteen – photography

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1992-1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	1
UK Albums Chart	1
Australia ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart	1

Certifications

Country	Provider	Certification (sales thresholds)
United States	RIAA	3× Platinum
Canada	CRIA	4× Platinum
United Kingdom	BPI	Gold

Notes

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20011221160908/http://www.defleppard.com/defleppard/biography/index.html
2. Christgau, Robert. "Def Leppard". Robert Christgau.
3. J.D. Considine (16 April 1992). "Adrenalize | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
4. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/30374/Def-Leppard-Adrenalize
5. "Allmusic (Def Leppard charts and awards) Billboard albums".
6. "Def Leppard chart stats".
7. "Glam Metal 101 - history, description and examples of glam metal rock". About.com. Retrieved 28 February 2012.

References

• Adrenalize (CD booklet). Def Leppard. London, England: Mercury. 1992. 314 512 185-2.