Hysteria
by Def Leppard
- 108
- BPM
- G major
- Key
- 9B
- Camelot
- 68
- Danceability
- 3
- Acousticness
The title "Hysteria" came from Rick Allen, the drummer of the English rock band Def Leppard, as lead singer Joe Elliott revealed on VH1 Storytellers: Def Leppard. The song is the tenth track on the 1987 album of the same name. It came out as the album's fourth single in November 1987. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's first top 10 hit there.
It has a clean guitar melody and heavily multi-tracked vocals in the chorus. Producer Mutt Lange's recording methods were described as extreme. The clean guitar chords were not strummed in the usual way. They were recorded one note at a time, so that each chord was built from the notes that make it up.
Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen later performed an acoustic rendition of the song on the Hysteria edition of VH1's Classic Albums. Lange produced the recording.
Hysteria runs at 108 BPM, the tempo of mid-tempo pop, dancehall and indie. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.22 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 556 ms. It is in G major, Camelot 9B, which shares its notes with E minor and mixes cleanly with C major and D major.
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