DO YOU WANNA GET ROCKED ?
Adrenalize
is the fifth
studio album
by English
rock band
released on
March,30th 1992
through Mercury Records.
It is the first album
by the band
recorded without
guitarist
Steve Clark,
who died in 1991,
although most songs
were written
and partially demoed
before his death,
they were
re-recorded
solo by
Phil Collen
in 1991-1992.
It is the only album
recorded by
Def Leppard
as a
four-member band.
Spawning seven singles,
four of them
"Let's Get Rocked",
"Make Love Like a Man",
"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad",
and
"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"
were major hits.
"Tear It Down"
is a
re-recording
of a song written
during a recording session
following
the completion
of the
Hysteria album,
and released as
a
B-side
for that album's
single
"Women"
in 1987.
The song received
radio airplay
and was performed
by the band live
at the 1989
MTV Video Music Awards.
"White Lightning"
is dedicated to
the memory of Clark,
who has writing credits
on six
of the album's
ten tracks.
Background
Having done some writing
on tour for Hysteria,
the band returned
to the studio
in November 1988
to work on
the next album
at Wisseloord Studios
and later
Studio 150 in Amsterdam,
both in Holland.
Def Leppard
had faced long delays
previously,
including the challenge
of drummer
Rick Allen
losing his arm
while making their
previous album,
Hysteria,
and while trying
to follow up
the success,
they also faced
the prospect of
doing so with a
different producer,
as
Robert John "Mutt" Lange
was already working
with
Bryan Adams.
At the same time,
guitarist
Steve Clark
had been suffering
from alcohol addiction
since 1989,
spending six sessions
in rehab,
so he was in the
studio less and less
than before.
Clark was involved
in writing six
of the songs
on the album,
but was given an
ultimatum over his
alcoholism in
September 1990,
and put on a
six-month leave of absence.
Clark died
four months later,
in January 1991.
The band tried to continue
the recording process,
going back
into the studio
the day after
Clark's death
to cope with the loss,
but it took a
few months
before they were able
to work to what
they felt was a
satisfactory standard.
As singer
Joe Elliott reported,
90% of the album
was recorded
between
April and December 1991.
Recording
Instead of replacing Clark
with a new member,
the band continued recording
the album as a
four-piece.
"We had recorded demos
on multitrack,"
recalled fellow
guitarist
Phil Collen.
"I was sitting there with him
when he played
the original parts.
I could relay that.
But it was like
playing along to a ghost."
This was also the band's
first album since 1980's
On Through the Night
not to be produced by
Lange.
Instead,
the band took matters
in their own hands
and produced the album
themselves
along with
longtime engineer
Mike Shipley;
with Lange
credited as
executive producer.
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