Rocket (Def Leppard song)

"Rocket"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Hysteria
B-side
Released
  • 30 January 1989 (UK)[1]
  • February 1989 (US)
Recorded1984–1987
GenreGlam metal[2]
Length
  • 6:34 (album version)
  • 8:41 (extended Lunar mix)
  • 7:06 (Lunar mix/remix)
  • 4:38 (edit)
  • 4:25 (Lunar mix – single version)
  • 4:10 (video version)
  • 4:07 (Visualize video edit/Vault version)
LabelMercury
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Love Bites"
(1988)
"Rocket"
(1989)
"Let's Get Rocked"
(1992)
Music video
"Rocket" on YouTube

"Rocket" is a 1989 song by English heavy metal band Def Leppard and is the seventh single from their fourth studio album Hysteria. It went to number 15 in the United Kingdom and Australia, number 12 in the United States, number 14 in Canada and number 5 in New Zealand and Ireland.

Track listing

7": Bludgeon Riffola / LEP6 (UK)

  1. "Rocket" (edit)
  2. "Release Me"

7": Mercury / 872 614-7 (US)

  1. "Rocket" (edit)
  2. "Women" (live)

12": Bludgeon Riffola / LEPX6 (UK)

  1. "Rocket (Lunar mix)
  2. "Release Me"
  3. "Rock of Ages" (live)

12": Bludgeon Riffola / LEPXP6 (UK)

  1. "Rocket" (Lunar mix)
  2. "Rocket" (radio edit)
  3. "Release Me"
  • 12" picture disc

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPCD6 (UK)

  1. "Rocket" (Lunar mix—edit)
  2. "Rock of Ages" (live)
  3. "Release Me"

CD: Vertigo / 872 614-2 (Canada)

  1. "Rocket" (extended Lunar mix)
  2. "Women" (live)
  3. "Rock of Ages" (live)
  4. "Rocket" (Lunar mix)
  • Only 5000 copies pressed

CDV: Bludgeon Riffola / 080 990-2 (UK)

  1. "Rocket (Lunar mix—edit) (video)
  2. "Rocket" (edit) (audio)
  3. "Release Me" (audio)
  4. "Rock of Ages" (live) (audio)

References

  1. "Def Leppard singles".
  2. Edwards, Gavin (2006-11-01). "Hysteria". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2021-05-30.