Armageddon It

"Armageddon It"
"Armageddon It"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side	"Ring of Fire" (UK); "Release Me" (US);
Released	March 1988 (UK); November 1988 (US);
Recorded	1984–1987
Genre	Hard rock; pop metal;
Length	5:24 (Atomic mix/album version); 7:39 (Nuclear mix);
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Joe Elliott; Rick Savage; Phil Collen; Steve Clark; Robert John "Mutt" Lange;
Producer(s)	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
Music video
	"Armageddon It" on YouTube

"Armageddon It" is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria. It was released as a single in 1988 and went to No. 3 in the United States, becoming their 3rd top 10 hit. It also reached the top 10 in Canada and New Zealand and the top 20 in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The vocal style of the song is described as "T. Rex meets Eddie Cochran with backing vocals", according to lead singer Joe Elliott in the liner notes for Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995). There are two mixes of the song that appeared on the single: the "Atomic mix", which is the album version, and the "Nuclear mix", which is an extended version.

^ Devores, Courtney (20 July 2014). "Kiss and Def Leppard rock the rain away in Charlotte". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021. [...] "Armageddon It" held the most thematic weight as statistics about world hunger, HIV, the environment, and cancer, ticked up on a giant screen behind them. The climbing stats pitted the number of overweight people in the world against the number of hungry and the rate at which forests are being pummeled with the time with which the world's oil will run out—all quite interesting stuff. I'm not sure how many in the audience—fists raised, singing along wholeheartedly—were "really getting it", but it was quite a powerful way to present a 25-year-old pop-metal hit.

[1] Devores, Courtney (20 July 2014). "Kiss and Def Leppard rock the rain away in Charlotte". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021. [...] "Armageddon It" held the most thematic weight as statistics about world hunger, HIV, the environment, and cancer, ticked up on a giant screen behind them. The climbing stats pitted the number of overweight people in the world against the number of hungry and the rate at which forests are being pummeled with the time with which the world's oil will run out—all quite interesting stuff. I'm not sure how many in the audience—fists raised, singing along wholeheartedly—were "really getting it", but it was quite a powerful way to present a 25-year-old pop-metal hit.

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