Pour Some Sugar on Me

"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side
  • "I Wanna Be Your Hero" (UK)
  • "Ring of Fire" (US)
Released
  • 7 September 1987 (UK)
  • April 1988 (US)
  • 4 June 2012 (re-recorded version)
Recorded
  • December 1986 – January 1987 (original)
  • 2012 (re-recorded version)
Genre
Length
  • 4:27 (album version)
  • 4:24 (single version)
  • 4:52 (Hysteria video edit version)
  • 5:35 (extended version)
  • 4:21 (2012 re-recorded version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Women"
(1987) 		"Pour Some Sugar on Me"
(1987) 		"Hysteria"
(1987)
Audio sample
"Pour Some Sugar on Me"

"Pour Some Sugar on Me" is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It reached number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 23 July 1988, behind "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is considered the band's signature song,[9] and was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006.[10]

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