High 'n' Dry

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High 'n' Dry
Studio album by Def Leppard
Released	June 11, 1981
Recorded	1980 - April 9, 1981 at Battery Studios in London
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	42:15
Label	Mercury
Producer	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Def Leppard chronology
On Through the Night (1980) High 'n' Dry (1981) Pyromania (1983)

High 'n' Dry is the second studio album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). Its title song "High 'n' Dry" made #33 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs ^[1].

[edit] 1984 Reissue

Due to the success of Pyromania, High 'n' Dry was reissued on 14 May 1984 with two bonus tracks:

• "Bringin' On the Heartbreak (remix)", essentially the same recording with a few synthesizer overdubs. The remix was released in 1984 as a single, peaking at #61 in the UK charts.
• "Me & My Wine (remix)", a remixed version of a 1981 B-side. Its video parodied The Young Ones with band members playing the roles.

Videos for both were made, featuring Phil Collen (who was not in the band at the time of the music's recording). Both bonuses were deleted from the mid-1990s re-releases of the album.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Let It Go" (Joe Elliott, Pete Willis, Steve Clark) – 4:43
2. "Another Hit and Run" (Elliott, Rick Savage) – 4:59
3. "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)" (Elliott, Clark, Savage) – 3:27
4. "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (Elliott, Willis, Clark) – 4:34
5. "Switch 625" (Clark) – 3:03

[edit] Side two

1. "You Got Me Runnin'" (Elliott, Willis, Clark) – 4:23
2. "Lady Strange" (Elliott, Willis, Clark, Rick Allen) – 4:39
3. "On Through the Night" (Elliott, Clark, Savage) – 5:06
4. "Mirror, Mirror (Look into My Eyes)" (Elliott, Clark, Savage) – 4:08
5. "No No No" (Elliott, Willis, Savage) – 3:13

[edit] Bonus tracks on re-issues post 1984

• "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (Remix) (Elliott, Willis, Clark) – 4:34
• "Me & My Wine" (Remix) – 3:40

On vinyl and cassette releases, "Me & My Wine" (Remix) is added to the end of side one, while "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (Remix) leads off side two. On CD releases, "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (Remix) and "Me & My Wine" (Remix) follow "No No No".

[edit] Personnel

• Joe Elliott – lead vocals
• Pete Willis – guitar, backing vocals
• Steve Clark – guitar, backing vocals
• Rick Savage – bass, backing vocals
• Rick Allen – drums, backing vocals

[edit] Production

• Robert John "Mutt" Lange – producer
• Mike Shipley – engineer
• Hipgnosis – cover design

[edit] Trivia

• On the original vinyl LP, the final track "No No No" ended with the word "No" screamed continually into the record's run-out groove.

• And at about 4:05 in "Another Hit and Run", you can hear singer Joe Elliott whisper a fade-out "bastard" a total of three times very quietly, then a "one, two, three" by the other members of the band.

• "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)" was placed at Number 10 on the Parents Music Resource Center's "Filthy Fifteen" for alleged promotion of drugs and alcohol.

[edit] Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Singles

Billboard (North America)

[edit] Catalog Numbers

• UK: Vertigo Records 6359 045 (LP), 7150 045 (Cassette Tape)
• US: Mercury Records SRM-1-4021 (LP), 314-512-356-2/4 (CD & Cassette Tape); 818-836-1/2/4 (1984 Reissue LP, CD & Cassette Tape)

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Senff, Mark. Def Leppard discography. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.