Rocket (Def Leppard song)

"Rocket"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side
Released
  • 30 January 1989 (UK)[1]
  • February 1989 (US)
Recorded1984–1987
GenreGlam metal[2]
Length
  • 6:34 (album version)
  • 8:41 (extended Lunar mix)
  • 7:06 (Lunar mix/remix)
  • 4:38 (edit)
  • 4:25 (Lunar mix – single version)
  • 4:10 (video version)
  • 4:07 (Visualize video edit/Vault version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Love Bites"
(1988)
"Rocket"
(1989)
"Let's Get Rocked"
(1992)
Music video
"Rocket" on YouTube

"Rocket" is a song recorded by English rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. It was released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from the album and reached the Top 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.[3] It is the band’s final single to be released with guitarist Steve Clark before his death in 1991.

  1. ^ "Def Leppard singles".
  2. ^ Edwards, Gavin (1 November 2006). "Hysteria". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  3. ^ Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner, Tony Brown (2004) The complete book of the British charts: singles & albums Omnibus Press, 2004