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!
Runaway, one of Jon Bon's most popular, was written in 1980, and was submitted into a local songwriting contest. After doing this, he was told to assemble a band in order to perform it. He hastily got a group together, and they were known as Jon Bongiovi and the Rest. This group was not the lineup for Bon Jovi, but rather a temporary group created to perform this immensely popular song. Richie Sambora caught up with Jon after a show, and requested for a position as the lead guitarist. Jon gave him a shot, and when they next met, Richie had the material down, he continued to become the official lead guitarist, and Bon Jovi was born. Released in their 1983 album "Bon Jovi", this song was their first hit. It became a huge sensation in the summer of 1983, and hit number thirty-four on the US Billboard top 100. This song has a very haunting intro, which ties in well with the lyrics, which are about neglect and prostitution. It's about a girl who has a father that gives her no attention, so she resorts to fleeing from that frontier, toward men that treat her the same way. From lack of attention and contact, she turns to prostitution, in order to please others, not thinking of her own distaste for how she lives.
