"I was 22 when I was encouraged to sing in that register by Mutt. "It's one of those songs that's born out of youth," Elliott noted. And they just gave the guitars a clarity that you don't get out of just an amp a lot of the time."Įlliott's rough-hewn falsetto gives "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" an immediate air of party-forward urgency, which was what the song required at the time, but which tends to wear on one's pipes throughout a long career. But Pyromania is absolutely just lathered in keyboards, but they're just disguised as guitar parts. "It's funny really that a lot of the kind of critical fans of ours, if you like, always say that Pyromania is a much heavier record than Hysteria – and on the surface, I suppose it would appear to be. "That big organ sound really took it to a new level," Elliott said in his Vault interview. The song's anthemic introduction – a mix of loud guitars and even louder synthesizers – set the expectation that Pyromania would not be your typical hard-rock record. It's a great example of sitting on something until you get it absolutely right." We changed a few vocal things, added a different guitar part in the second half of the verse. "It didn't change that much, in fairness. "It actually began its life as a song called 'Medicine Man' back in 1980, We actually played it onstage when we supported Pat Travers," bassist Rick Savage told fans in a video interview on the Def Leppard Vault website. Pyromania kicks off with a barn-burner in "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)," its opening riffs and lines ( "hold on to your head / hold on to your heart / ready, get set / tear this place apart") meant to grab the listener immediately. We're digging deeper into the making of this huge record by focusing on each of its 10 tracks. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart, selling 6 million copies in its initial release (on the way to more than 10 million required for diamond certification). Boston's debut and the first four Queen albums, they were huge productions, and that's what we wanted – a massive sound."Ī massive sound is what they got on Pyromania – one that appealed to hard-rock fans and pop-radio listeners alike and helped lift the album to No. There were certain records from the '70s that were much better than the stuff that was coming out in the early '80s. "We'd read about Queen and the Beatles using all these toys in the studio," singer Joe Elliott told Classic Rock, "and we wanted to do the same thing, but within a hard rock format. It also helped to have a band that shared the producer's desire to make hits, whose members were capable of both creative depth and prowess on their instruments, and who had a set of influences that helped light the way. It helped to write songs with tension-filled verses and big, bold choruses.
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