This video was edited together from live concert footage that would eventually be released as the band's full-length 1989 video Live: In the Round, in Your Face. Generally disliked by the band members, and filmed before Pour Some Sugar on Me became a huge mega-hit in the US, a second video simply of the band playing the song live was released for American MTV (the original video was only ever shown in the UK). The first version shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House at Stillorgan, Dublin) while it is being demolished by wrecking-balls and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker. Two different music videos for the song were produced. In 2012, the band re-recorded the song, along with Rock of Ages, under the title "Pour Some Sugar on Me 2012". In 2006, VH1 ranked the song number 2 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s." MTV ranked "Pour Some Sugar on Me" number 1 in its "Top 300 Videos of All Time" countdown in May 1991. Billboard Hot 100, number 18 in the UK Singles Chart and number 26 on the ARIA charts (Australia). The song reached number 1 in Canada, number 2 on the U.S. The video remained at number 1 on the request show Dial MTV for 85 days, tying the longest run ever on Dial MTV. It reached number 1 on the Top Pop Albums chart (now the Billboard 200) a year after release, and sold four million copies during the single's run. The somewhat delayed success of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (due to the new promo release) sent sales of Hysteria higher than the band ever imagined. Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and finally released it as the fourth single in North America. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.īy the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time).
Although already behind schedule Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song. Near the end of recording the album Hysteria singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with recently on an acoustic guitar.
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