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"&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Pour some sugar on me,&amp;quot; Def Leppard sang on their fourth album, and producer Mutt Lange obliged, coating songs like &amp;quot;Animal&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Rocket&amp;quot; in a sweet multitracked glaze until they became the decade&amp;apos;s tastiest pop-metal candy. Not that &lt;em&gt;Hysteria&lt;/em&gt; came easy: Def Leppard spent years in the studio before its 1987 release, interrupted by drummer Rick Allen losing his left arm in a car crash. (The fact that he stayed in the band suggests not only doggedness on his part but that Def Lep are one of the most loyal groups in rock &amp;amp; roll history.)&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hysteria&lt;/em&gt;&amp;apos;s highlight, still: the title track, six gorgeous minutes of thwarted desire and honeyed anticipation. With guitars skittering lightly over throbbing synths and Joe Elliott trying to persuade a girl who&amp;apos;s just out of reach, it&amp;apos;s as close as Def Leppard ever came to restraint. The record label milked one hook-laden hit after another for two years: &amp;quot;Love Bites&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Armageddon It&amp;quot; were a bit bombastic, but &amp;quot;Pour Some Sugar on Me,&amp;quot; which retooled hip-hop for mulletheads with lyrics like &amp;quot;You got the peaches/I got the cream,&amp;quot; went way past bombastic into the realm of genius.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Ten million copies later, Lange has married Shania Twain, Def Lep are doing glam-rock covers on the nostalgia circuit, and their biggest album now gets this double-disc reissue, with lots of outtakes and superfluous remixes. B sides like &amp;quot;Tear It Down&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Ride Into the Sun&amp;quot; are better than some of the songs that made the original disc, but the most entertaining bonus track is the live &amp;quot;Rock of Ages&amp;quot; medley, where the band incorporates &amp;quot;My Generation,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Whole Lotta Love,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Come Together,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Not Fade Away&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Radar Love&amp;quot; into one Frankenstein groove. The original singles still have the same sugar rush, but more than two hours of &lt;em&gt;Hysteria&lt;/em&gt; proves to be too much, like eating five pounds of Skittles in one sitting.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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