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Published on 25 Mar 2023 / In Film & Animation

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Rocket_(Def_Leppard_

"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 in the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart.[3]
Background and composition

Singer Joe Elliott came up with the idea of "Rocket" after he overheard a friend's cassette of "Burundi Black" by Burundi Steiphenson Black, which had previously had an influence on such UK bands as Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. Elliott then borrowed the tape to make a rhythm loop and overlaid guitar chords over it for a rough draft on the song. When he brought it to Lange and the band, they re-recorded and developed Elliott's idea in a higher key. The song was nearly developed as a near-instrumental with only a short chorus ("Rocket! Yeah"), but after the lyrics "Satellite of Love", which referenced the song of the same name by Lou Reed in 1972, were added to the chorus, the band expanded on the concept of the song and added musical influences of the 1960s and 1970s as lyrics for the verses, including the vocal melody to "I Feel Free" by Cream as part of the guitar solo.

During one break in the production of the song, the band were surprised to find that Lange had added the extended breakdown, complete with the vocal sampling, to the middle of the song. Lange also instructed the band to record monk-like chants, that were also similarly used by Adam and the Ants in their song "Dog Eat Dog", to emphasize a guitar solo during the breakdown.[4] Although the drumbeat samples, played at the beginning of the extended and edited version after audio from the Apollo 11 Moon landing[5] and again during the first half of each verse and the breakdown, are widely mis-attributed to be taken from the Royal Drummers of Burundi, they are actually a series of drum machines programmed by Lange and drummer Rick Allen to play slightly out-of-sync with one another to provide a tribal drum effect within the song.

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Look up "Adam and the Ants - Ant Music" and "Bow Wow Wow - I want candy" - you can see the influence in these songs. Antmusic - original low quality clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9drIwmmU4 / with better audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aWUKH9Vh24 AND "I want Candy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoXVYSV4Xcs

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