![]() ![]() UK versions of the single release featured a cover of the Engelbert Humperdinck song " Release Me", credited to "Stumpus Maximus & The Good Ol' Boys", which was actually Malvin Mortimer, the band's future tour manager, backed up by the band members themselves. The band alternate between the album version and the single edit in live performance. In its single release, "Rocket" was heavily edited from its original length of 6:34 for radio airplay. The words "Love" and "Bites" (from " Love Bites") are also used as a sonic effect midway throughout the song, in order to replicate the sounds of a rocket launch through musical samples. Producer Mutt Lange used backmasking effects to feature the line "We're fighting with the gods of war" (from "Gods of War") sung backward throughout the track, though this sample was omitted from the single version of the song. The song features nods to other tracks on Hysteria. ![]() #DEF LEPPARD WOMEN LYRICS SERIES#Although the drumbeat samples, played at the beginning of the extended and edited version after audio from the Apollo 11 Moon landing and again during the first half of each verse and the breakdown, are widely mis-attributed to be taken from the Royal Drummers of Burundi, they are actually a series of drum machines programmed by Lange and drummer Rick Allen to play slightly out-of-sync with one another to provide a tribal drum effect within the song. Lange also instructed the band to record monk-like chants, that were also similarly used by Adam and the Ants in their song " Dog Eat Dog", to emphasize a guitar solo during the breakdown. The song was nearly developed as a near-instrumental with only a short chorus ("Rocket! Yeah"), but after the lyrics " Satellite of Love", which referenced the song of the same name by Lou Reed in 1972, were added to the chorus, the band expanded on the concept of the song and added musical influences of the 1960s and 1970s as lyrics for the verses, including the vocal melody to " I Feel Free" by Cream as part of the guitar solo.ĭuring one break in the production of the song, the band were surprised to find that Lange had added the extended breakdown, complete with the vocal sampling, to the middle of the song. When he brought it to Lange and the band, they re-recorded and developed Elliott's idea in a higher key. Elliott then borrowed the tape to make a rhythm loop and overlaid guitar chords over it for a rough draft on the song. Singer Joe Elliott came up with the idea of "Rocket" after he overheard a friend's cassette of "Burundi Black" by Burundi Steiphenson Black, which had previously had an influence on such UK bands as Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. 7.4 12": Bludgeon Riffola / LEPXP6 (UK). ![]()
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