Adrenalize

"Let's Get Rocked"
Released: March 1992
"Make Love Like a Man"
Released: June 1992
"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
Released: September 1992 (USA), November (UK/International)
"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"
Released: December 1992 (US), July (1993) (Australia)
"Heaven Is"
Released: January 1993 (UK)
"Tonight"
Released: March 1993
"I Wanna Touch U"
Released: May 1993

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Robert Christgau	^[2]
Rolling Stone	^[3]
Sputnik Music	^[4]

Adrenalize is the fifth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released in 1992 through Mercury Records. The album was the first by the band following the 1991 death of guitarist Steve Clark. It was produced by Mike Shipley and Def Leppard, with Robert John "Mutt" Lange as executive producer. The album debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200^[5] and peaked at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.^[6] It is also notable for being the last album released by a band at the time classified as glam metal to garner significant multi-platinum sales, for the album was released in the midst of the grunge explosion of the early 1990s which shifted virtually all bands of the pop-metal genre and the 1980s in general out of the mainstream.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let's Get Rocked"	Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Mutt Lange, Rick Savage	4:56
2.	"Heaven Is"	Steve Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	3:33
3.	"Make Love Like a Man"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	4:15
4.	"Tonight"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:03
5.	"White Lightning"	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	7:03
6.	"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	4:32
7.	"Personal Property"	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:21
8.	"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"	Collen, Elliott, Lange	5:24
9.	"I Wanna Touch U"	Rick Allen, Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange	3:37
10.	"Tear It Down"	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Savage	3:38
Total length:			45:22

Japanese bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Miss You in a Heartbeat (Electric Version)"	Collen	5:06
12.	"She's Too Tough"	Elliott	3:39

Deluxe edition (Bonus CD)

In the Clubs, In Your Face – Bonn, Germany 29/05/92
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hysteria" (live)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	7:17
2.	"Photograph" (live)	Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage, Pete Willis	4:44
3.	"Pour Some Sugar on Me" (live)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	5:09
4.	"Let's Get Rocked" (live)	Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	5:46

Adrenalize B-sides
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"You Can't Always Get What You Want" (with Hothouse Flowers)	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	7:43
6.	"Little Wing" (with Hothouse Flowers)	Jimi Hendrix	3:40
7.	"Tonight" (version 2 – demo version)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:24
8.	"Now I'm Here" (live at Wembley Stadium – featuring Brian May)	Brian May	6:03
9.	"Two Steps Behind" (acoustic)	Elliott	4:11
10.	"Tonight" (acoustic – Sun Studios 1993)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	4:16
11.	"Too Late for Love" (live at Denver 1988)	Clark, Elliott, Lange, Savage, Willis	6:04
12.	"Women" (live at Denver 1988)	Clark, Collen, Elliott, Lange, Savage	6:34

Tracks 1-4 are taken from the band's Live: In the Clubs, in Your Face EP, recorded at Bonn, Germany, on 29 May 1992
Tracks 5 & 6 taken from "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" single.
Tracks 7 & 8 taken from "Tonight" single.
Track 9 taken from "Make Love Like a Man" U.K. single and "Two Steps Behind" U.S. single.
Track 10 taken from "Two Steps Behind" single.
Tracks 11 & 12 taken from "Let's Get Rocked" single.

Personnel

Joe Elliott – lead vocals
Phil Collen – all guitars except acoustic guitar on "Tonight", Cockney rhyming rap on "Make Love Like a Man"
Rick Savage – bass guitar, acoustic guitar on "Tonight"
Rick Allen – drums

Additional personnel

The Sideways Mob – backing vocals
Robert John "Mutt" Lange, John Sykes - backing vocals
Phil "Crash" Nicholas – keyboard on "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)"

Production

Mike "Bat Ears" Shipley – producer, engineer, mixing
Def Leppard – producer
Pete Woodroffe – engineer, programming, sequencing
Robert John "Mutt" Lange – executive producer
Robert Scovill – assistant engineer
Bob Ludwig – mastering
Andie Airfix – art direction
Pamela Springsteen – photography

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1992-1993)	Peak position
Australia ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart	1
U.S. Billboard 200	1
UK Albums Chart	1

Certifications

Country	Provider	Certification (sales thresholds)
United States	RIAA	3× Platinum
Canada	CRIA	4× Platinum
United Kingdom	BPI	Gold

Notes

↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20011221160908/http://www.defleppard.com/defleppard/biography/index.html
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Def Leppard". Robert Christgau.
↑ J.D. Considine (16 April 1992). "Adrenalize | Album Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2011-11-02.
↑ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/30374/Def-Leppard-Adrenalize
↑ "Allmusic (Def Leppard charts and awards) Billboard albums".
↑ "Def Leppard chart stats".

References

Adrenalize (CD booklet). Def Leppard. London, England: Mercury. 1992. 314 512 185-2.

Preceded by Wayne's World (soundtrack) by Various Artists	Billboard 200 number-one album 18 April – 22 May 1992	Succeeded by Totally Krossed Out by Kris Kross
Preceded by Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen	UK number one album 11–17 April 1992	Succeeded by Diva by Annie Lennox
Preceded by Hepfidelity by Diesel	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album 12–25 April 1992	Succeeded by Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Def Leppard

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

EPs

Videography

Concert tours

Articles	Discography Members Awards & Nominations Hysteria – The Def Leppard Story

Groups	Cybernauts Man Raze Down 'n' Outz Atomic Mass Gogmagog

People	Robert John "Mutt" Lange Jeff Rich Ross Halfin Frank Noon

Robert John "Mutt" Lange

Produced albums

1970s	City Boy – City Boy Graham Parker – Heat Treatment The Motors – 1 City Boy – Young Men Gone West The Boomtown Rats – The Boomtown Rats Outlaws – Playin' to Win The Boomtown Rats – A Tonic for the Troops The Boomtown Rats – The Fine Art of Surfacing AC/DC – Highway to Hell

1980s	AC/DC – Back in Black Foreigner – 4 Def Leppard – High 'N' Dry AC/DC – For Those About to Rock We Salute You Def Leppard – Pyromania The Cars – Heartbeat City Def Leppard – Hysteria Romeo's Daughter – Romeo's Daughter Billy Ocean – Tear Down These Walls Bryan Adams – Waking Up the Neighbours

1990s	Def Leppard – Adrenalize (executive producer) Michael Bolton – The One Thing Shania Twain – The Woman in Me Bryan Adams – 18 til I Die Shania Twain – Come On Over

2000s	The Corrs – In Blue Shania Twain – Up! Shania Twain – Greatest Hits Nickelback – Dark Horse

2010s	Maroon 5 – Hands All Over Muse – Drones

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