Def Leppard Work It Out Single
Def Leppard 1996
Tracklisting
- 01 - Work It Out - (4:49)
- 02 - Move With Me Slowly - (6:20)
- 03 - Two Steps Behind (
Live Acoustic BBC 1995Live Acoustic Singapore 1995) - (4:13) - 04 - Work It Out (Original Demo Version) - (3:33)
- 05 - Truth? (Original Version) - (5:09)
- Additional Tracks - On Other Versions
- 06 - Work It Out (Radio Edit) - (3:41)
- 07 - Animal (Live Acoustic BBC 1995) - (3:47)
- 08 - Ziggy Stardust (Live Acoustic BBC 1995) - (3:08)
- 09 - Pour Some Sugar On Me (Live Acoustic BBC 1995) - (4:00)
- UK Release Date - 1st July 1996.
- UK Release Date - 17th June 1996 (Originally Announced Date).
- US Release Date - 27th May 1996.
- Format - CD/CASS.
- Producer - Pete Woodroffe/Def Leppard (Tracks 01/02/06).
- Engineered/Mixed By - Pete Woodroffe (Tracks 01/02/06).
- Engineered By - Vivian Campbell (Track 04).
- Live Track 03 - Recorded 26th October 1995 at Hard Rock Cafe, Singapore.
- Live Tracks 07/08/09 - Recorded October 1995 at BBC Radio One Studios, London, England.
- Produced/Engineered By - MITI for Radio One at BBC Maida Vale Studios (Tracks 02/03/04).
- Engineered By - Vivian Campbell (Track 04).
- UK Record Label - Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury.
- US Record Label - Mercury.
- Special Formats - UK CD2 Limited Edition with Four Collector's Album Cover Postcards (1-4).
- UK Chart - 22 (13th July 1996/3 weeks on chart)
- US Chart - n/a.
- UK Rock Chart - 1 (13th July 1996/41 weeks on chart)
- US Rock Chart - 6
- From The Album - Slang
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Band Members
- Lead Vocals - Joe Elliott
- Bass - Rick Savage
- Guitars - Phil Collen
- Guitars - Vivian Campbell
- Drums - Rick Allen
Single Notes By dltourhistory
The second single from 'Slang' was released in July 1996.
'Work It Out' was the first song written for Def Leppard by Vivian Campbell.
It was also the lead single in the USA,
The song reached number 22 on the UK Top 40 following on from the success of the title track.
Another two UK CD singles were released.
CD2 was a Limited Edition in a jewel album case featuring part one of the Def Leppard album postcards set.
Four postcards for the albums On Through The Night/High 'n' Dry/Pyromania/Hysteria with band comments on the reverse.
On the UK CD1 the live acoustic version of 'Two Steps Behind':
Two Steps Behind/Song Mislabelled
This live acoustic version of 'Two Steps Behind' is labelled as being from the BBC sessions.
It is actually 4:13 in length and from the 'Acoustic In Singapore' session (which was also mislabelled as being 4:01 in length on the Slang bonus CD).
And although the same version it runs for 4:17 on the Slang bonus CD.
It was also labelled incorrectly on the Japanese version of the Slang single which used the same three B-Sides as the UK CD1 of 'Work It Out'.
Two demo/alternate versions of Slang album tracks were also included as well as a new track by Phil Collen with him on lead vocals.
The promo CDs featured an edit of the single.
UK Promo CD Message #1
"Def Leppard Work It Out - Taken from their top 5 album 'Slang', Work It Out is the second release set to follow Slang into the Top 20.
The Lepps start their world tour in Bangkok on 28 May and will be reaching the UK in November."
Note - This promo CD gave a Retail Date (R/D) of 17th June but the single was actually released on 1st July.
UK Promo CD Message #2
"Work It Out" is the second single taken from Def Leppard's million selling album "Slang", and sees the band taking a radical new direction.
The band are currently at US radio and also in South East Asia where they commence their world tour at the end of May."
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