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Action Single Released 19 Years Ago Today

Friday, 4th January 2013





Action 1994.
UK 7" Single

Def Leppard released their classic single Action 19 years ago on this day in 1994.

The song was the first cover version to be released as a single by the band.

It was first released as the B-Side to 'Make Love Like A Man' in June 1992 with a more electronic sounding snare drum. When putting together the 1993 'Retro-Active' collection of B-Sides and unreleased songs/versions the band decided to revamp it with a new snare drum sound. Vivian Campbell (along with friend P.J. Smith) sang backing vocals in one of his first contributions to the band.

The song was included on the 'Retro-Active' compilation album and it reached Number 14 on the UK Top 40 single chart in January 1994.

Joe Elliott - Vault Inner Sleeve Quote

"If you're going to cover a song there's two choices: either copy it exactly or do it completely different. We opted for the former and got Andy Scott's enthusiastic approval."

Def Leppard - Retro-Active Inner Sleeve Quote

"We wanted to do a couple of cover tunes for the 'Adrenalize' album B-Sides. We did this tune because we were all Big Sweet fans. Nuff said."

Def Leppard - Action Single Section

Def Leppard - Retro-Active Album Section







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