Management attempted a coup by putting Jim Steinman in the producer’s chair. It’s a great human story of a person overcoming a terrible situation Phil Collen Rick was a guy overcoming a full-blown tragedy. Which is where the first kick in the nuts took the wind out of them: Mutt Lange had just completed work on The Cars’ Heartbeat City, and was forced to decide that he was too emotionally exhausted to work on Def Leppard’s album. With a stack of songs in their pocket, the band moved to Hilversum, Holland, in August to begin the recording. There’s a clutch of cunningly constructed riffs, a crowd-pleasing singalong bit (complete with ‘wo-oah’s), and some controlled tension.Īs soon as the management and label heard Animal, they knew everything was going to be okay. At the bottom end was a no-nonsense rhythm provided by bassist Rick Savage and drummer Allen and at the top, Elliott’s trademark croak-scream vocals. In the same way that all matter is 99 per cent space ( That’s correct – Science Ed.), thus it was with Animal. The idea was to tear the song wide open and explore the space within, but still wind up delivering a whopping punch of sound. Guitarists Collen and Steve Clark demolished the concept of the big riff, replacing the solid rock face with a complex construction of fine brickwork. And it set out the band’s stall big-time. The first song to be written to anything like completion was Animal. He made us better than we were.”Īnd so the album that would be Hysteria began taking shape. “Mutt said: ‘Let’s make a rock version of Thriller – an album you can have seven singles off,’” guitarist Phil Collen said in 2002.
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