"It's the first single off the album and because of the nature of the song it really needs to beīecause it's supposed to be a bit of a humorous thing and jokes don't get better with repeating them." "And you have to change your tack for different lyrics, different approach you know." It's not necessarily me I'm just the guy that's singing it you know. And again it's, I'm playing a character role. "So it has to be done in a kind of a transatlantic accent. You can't sing the word dude in a Yorkshire accent." "I mean I actually sing it in, it's sounds very Americanized the way it's been done. Very tongue in cheek and just some lazy kid you know." I guess it's very Hollywood in its.in the way it could be taken. "Just hang out reading Hustler, watching the Playboy channel and going to rock gigs. "It's just me talk-singing in a very kind of Prince/Bolan-esque way the lyric about this kid that's like Which basically was just a complete vehicle for the voice 'cause there's like hardly anything going off on the verse." So we just put this little arrangement together "And, you know, as far as we're concerned so is Let's Get Rocked. "And Geldof with Live Aid and all this kind of thing. "And I think it's nice to have an alternative. And I guess everybody tries to use environmentally friendly products you know forĮither the hair spray or washing liquid you know. I mean obviously we don't want the planet I think it's good to have an alternative to that. That everything, well not everything, but they seem to be very. "And we're quite of the fact that it is because I think that people like Sting and to a lesser extent Peter GabrielĪnd R.E.M and maybe Midnight Oil. "And it's just a kid that wants to go out and just rock and roll you know. Where you won't take out the trash and you won't walk the dog and you won't mow the lawn." Is having one of those relationships that you tend to have with your father when you're a 16 or 17 years old. "And as i say having watched The Simpson's the whole character of the lyric is all about a kid who basically You know like Killer Queen or Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon with a bit of the humour of Glam Rock. "That went back to the humour of say some of the early Queen albums.
We went out there to try and make something that was a bit of fun." "So we decided to do the complete opposite and instead of making like this heavy metal Leonard Cohen record. And sort of like taking advantage of the situation." "And because this was all written after Steve had died it would have been very easy for us to kind of write a lot of songsĪbout that experience and it would've sounded a bit morbid you know. It was written in about two and a half days. ".Let's Get Rocked was the last thing done. We either had one and a half songs finished with like, you know, two and a half songs to write sort of thing." We wanted to put out a ten track record this time instead of a twelve track record." We were very happy with the six songs and we had four that needed either tarting up or writing." Of because of what had happened to Steve, of writing more songs for the album of which Let's Get Rocked was one of them." "I think it's pretty obvious that we we'd been watching The Simpson's a lot. Let's Get Rocked is, and should be taken, with a very heavy pinch of humour." Maybe you had to be that age to appreciate it?." "My son was two or three when it came out and he thought it was great. The 'wolf whistle' in the song is actually done by Joe's then wife Karla Elliott as none of the band could do it as well as her.
The first 'live' performance was 15th April 1992 in Dublin, Ireland during Vivian's first show with the band.
It was first performed by the band as a four piece on BBC TV show Top Of The Pops in late March (the music was playback with Joe singing live). It was also the only single to be released as a four piece before the band announced their new guitar player Vivian Campbell. The song was the first release after the death of guitarist Steve Clark in January 1991. Narrowly missing out on the Number 1 spot by just 146 copies. Three inside the Top 10Īnd was their biggest hit to date in their homeland. It was released on 16th March 1992 reaching Number 2 and spending seven weeks on the UK chart. The first single to be released from the 'Adrenalize' album and their first UK release since 'Rocket' in January 1989. "That was the last song we got together."ĭef Leppard released their classic Let's Get Rocked single on this day in 1992 in the UK. The first of five singles to be takenįrom the 'Adrenalize' album and the first one released in three years. This section looks at the 'Let's Get Rocked' UK single release.
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