DEF LEPPARD: Animal + Tear It Down (unreleased) 7″ Check videos

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80’s never die 🎶 this video makes us miss the 80s, the arcade games, and even the mullets. When music was about life, love, and good times……

“Animal” is a song recorded by British hard rock band Def Leppard in 1987 from the album Hysteria. It was the 2nd single release off the album, and became the bands first Top 10 hit in their native UK, reaching No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
“Animal” is usually noted by the band as having been the most difficult track to record for Hysteria. Although it was one of the first songs developed in early 1984, neither the band nor the producers who came and went (Jim Steinman, Nigel Green, & Mutt Lange) were able to produce the desired sound until two and a half painstaking years later.
However, the effort paid off when “Animal” was released as the lead single off the album in July 1987. In the UK, where the band was all but ignored during the Pyromania era, the song hit #6 on the singles chart and broke Def Leppard into the pop mainstream across Europe.
Over in America, the lead single “Women” performed poorly on the pop charts, which didn’t give the band much momentum when “Animal” was released afterwards in October 1987. It did reach a respectable #19 though, starting their run of ten consecutive U. S. Billboard Top 40 singles, and is still one of the more popular numbers at Def Leppard concerts today.
The singles UK B-side, “Tear It Down”, was written during a recording session following the completion of the Hysteria album, where the band laid down several tracks intended as B-sides for the Hysteria singles. Subsequently, the song itself received radio airplay and was later performed by the band live at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.
The line in the song, “Like the restless rust, I never sleep”, is a reference to Neil Youngs album Rust Never Sleeps.
The band later re-recorded “Tear It Down” for the Adrenalize album.

Track listing 7″:
“Animal”
“Tear it Down”
Bludgeon Riffola / LEP1 (UK)
On the back there is a picture of the band on some train rails. The photograph was taken by Laurie Lewis.

This song is purely about lust. Animal sex.

“Don’t need your love.”

Turn it up when you’re banging some one-night stand.

A wild ride, over stony ground
Such a lust for life, the circus comes to town
We are the hungry ones on a lightning raid
Just like a river runs, like a fire needs flame
I burn for you

I gotta feel it in my blood
I need your touch don’t need your love

And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal

I cry wolf, given mouth to mouth
Like a movin’ heartbeat in the witching hour
I’m runnin’ with the wind, a shadow in the dust
And like the drivin’ rain, like the restless rust
I never sleep

I gotta feel it in my blood
I need your touch don’t need your love

And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal

Cry wolf baby
Cry tough
Gonna hunt you like an, uh uh animal
Gonna take your love ‘n’ run

I gotta feel it in my blood
I need your touch don’t need your love

And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I need, and I lust
Animal
And I want, and I want
And I need, and I need
And I lust, and I lust
Animal, animal
And I want, take me
And I need, tame me
And I lust, make me
Animal, your animal

And I want, show me
And I need, stroke me
And I lust, let me be your
Animal, animal
And I want, I want
And I need, ooh
And I lust, animal
Animal