Alright! Well I teach a basketball and rock & roll class, and on Monday, we're listening to Def Leppard, and this is my favourite Def Leppard song, so I'm going to blog about it. First, off, the intro is not what people think, it's not a German phrase or anything. The producer, Mutt Lange, was a huge perfectionist, so they did dozens of takes of every song, and he grew tired of the classic rock count in(1,2,3,4), so he began to just spout gibberish, this was a take of said gibberish, which is NOT s phrase in German, it's just some German-esk pronunciation. This song was released as on Def Leppard's third album, Pyromania in 1983, which sold over ten million copies, certifying it as diamond. The name of the song came of a book of Christian hymns, which Joe Elliot observed, and proceeded to write a song about it. In my opinion, this song is about the long lasting rock and roll spirit, and how rock and roll will never die!
