* Sales figures based on certification alone. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006. The first version (directed by Russell Mulcahy) shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House at Stillorgan, Dublin) while it is being demolished by a wrecking ball and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker. The American video (directed by Wayne Isham) was edited from the band's full-length 1989 video release, Live: In the Round, in Your Face, recorded at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, CO, in February 1988. Not another song that’s going to take six months.’ It didn’t, of course. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is considered the band's signature song, and was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 23 July 1988, behind "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx. In stark contrast to the other tracks on Hysteria, the basic recording process for Sugar took less than two weeks.
The result was nothing short of a phenomenon, with the popularity of Pour Some Sugar… on MTV pushing the single to No.2 in the US and helping Hysteria to the top of the album chart. By It reached #2 on Billboard Hot 100 in July of 1988.
It wasn’t until the following year, with sales of Hysteria stalling at three million, that the US record company finally released Pour Some Sugar On Me as a last ditch attempt to claw back some of the album’s huge production costs. Key and BPM for Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard. The studio version which has "Step inside, walk this way, you and me babe, hey hey!" I have had many of the desserts made by Pour Some Sugar On Me and I give each of them five stars!! “For some bizarre reason, in America women seem to feel compelled to take their shirts off when we play it. While it’s tempting to assume that Pour Some Sugar On Me was an instant smash hit, hard evidence shows otherwise.
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