Another good song from post 1990 Def Leppard. They were young in 1983 when they had a huge success with 1983's Pyromania album and Tour. Rick Allen was only 21 when after that Tour he received a big pay day and bought a Corvette which almost cost him his Life in the accident. He lost only an arm but for a drummer this likely lead to an increased risk for depression and suicide. However, Rick was able to deal with the situation which inspired many. In 1991, guitarist Steve Clark's inability to handle his situation(alcoholism and pill-popping) did cost him his Life(RIP). From 92's Adrenalize album on, DL began recording many more ballads and positive-vib songs which bordered on Christian Rock with song's like: Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad, Stand Up Kick Love into Motion , Two Steps Behind, When Love & Hate Collide, Miss You In A Heartbeat , Breathe A Sigh, We Belong, Good Bye , Long Long Way To Go , Promises , Now, Wings Of An Angel and Work It Out.
Have this and all their other CD. Great music and harmonies. Saw them in concert , their voices are genuine and easy to listen to. Great talent for songwriting through the years
@priyadarshannag9782 Steve Clark wrote this song. Mutt Lange decided to trash the original that Steve had played on. It's on UA-cam as Stand Up Demo. On that demo, you'll hear Steve and Phil playing together. In this one, Mutt made Phil redo all of Steve's parts. Phil stated that having to learn to play like Steve was very difficult, and took a long time. So sad. 😢
Def Leppard's best power ballad and seriously underrated. The Adrenalize album instantly transports me back to being a 7 or 8 year old kid in the early 90s. Granted this sound was already fading away fast by 1992/early 93 but at that age I had no idea and just liked it for what it was
This is one of the greatest rock ballads ever made. It’s a pity that at the time grunge dominated the radio so this song never really got the credit it deserved.
it was number one on the rock charts....in the US. But it does seem to be forgotten over time, which sucks because it's an amazing song....sounds alot like Hysteria.
@@adambell5399no, this was after Steve passed. He wrote this song but died before being able to record the final track. Most of the songs on Adrenalize were this way. I believe Phil recorded all guitar parts for this album IIRC
The first 26 seconds gives me goosebumps ❤❤❤❤❤ Love this ballad . Sometimes I wish I was older to have enjoyed the music of Def Leppard ❤ I play Def every day….you came to my life and you changed me Def Leppard 4 EVER
This music will never die while I am alive.Loud,heart felt,soul music.After three and a half months in a deep coma,I needed something to believe in through my very difficult recovery. Thanks Def Leppard,your music gave me the strength to live,to rebuild my life.Step by Step,coming back from heaven and hell.Shaking me into motion.I was lucky to make a full recovery and continue living my life,standing up.
Back in the day when this album came out i was a Bartender this song was on constant play on the jukebox the whole Bar would sing the corus 😎 magical times 👍
In an era when the Power Ballad had been beaten into the ground, this gem from Def Leppard proved that it could still be done well. Another timeless song...
Arguably their most underrated song! It's about time they threw this into a live set. Now's as good a time as any in Vegas as they're playing a lot of rarer stuff
Chris Winn agreed!! I love this song from the second I heard it I was raised in the 80s Def Leppard was and will always be the best group from that era!
I was hospitalized when this record was released. I was suffering from a chronic intestinal disease back then, and that's when I met my future wife... we are still married to this very day. This record literally changed my life.
Just one of so MANY gifts the late genius Steven Maynard "The Riffmaster" Clark left this band. Steve has it all - live he dripped rock star genuine cool. As Viv says verbatim "90% of what we play Steve left us". Steve's gift remains incalculable !! This really is a beautiful guitar layered song, one of their best imo !!
They didn't even play it live way back when it was their current single, which was a surprise and disappointment. I saw them just a few nights ago, and i was hoping... maybe, but no.
This song was composed to be included in the Hysteria album however they thougth the song was pretty seemed to Hysteria. So they took out Stand Up and later released it as a single.
Lou really reaches down to the soles of his feet to pull out those gritty notes as this song begins to reach its crescendo. His voice only got better with time. He really has a story to tell about his life. The ups and downs of being in a world famous rock band. Then there was the surgery to remove a tumor to save his life. So glad God chose to keep you on this side of the dirt a little longer.
This was the first song I ever heard from Def Leppard when I was 12 years old. I fell in love with Def Leppard and I’m still in love 27 years later. Such good memories. ❤️❤️❤️
Stand Up and Love and Affection are their most underrated songs. DL were geniuses at belting out ballads but it’s like the industry only wanted to promote their hard rock image so kept releasing more rock songs over ballads.
Radio ignored this song because they were too interested in playing Nirvana 24/7 and Jeremy by Pearl Jam. Good. This gem was never killed and we get to play it on our radio. Same thing with "have you ever needed someone so bad". I bought this tape cassette when it first came out and it was the last cassette I ever bought because CD's became the thing.
In case anyone was wondering. The business man in the room high above Manhattan is Leps manager Peter Mensch and the guy hitting the balls up to him is the other half of the management team Cliff Burnstein. Video was shot in NYC on 10/26/92
Here it is, the beginning of 2022. A long time from when I was 18, and this song came out. That's right at three decades, ago. And, it still sounds better than anything being put out, today.... hands down. 'Nuff said.
Better is subjective. I've heard the demo version and it's awesome but it screams 80's and wasn't unique like the one on the album. I love playing the solo on my guitar but copying Phil's pinch harmonic is next to impossible.
liquidSpin yeah I don't bother with the pinch harmonic. Stand up was the first song I ever properly learned now come to think of it. At the time Phil's solo was too hard for me to do so I learnt the demo one instead. That's probably why I prefer it it has that nostalgia to me as being my first solo
I actually met Phil and got to chat with him (He was kind enough to sign my Jackson PC1) I asked how he does his pinch harmonics on songs like Stand Up and All I want is Everything (outro solo) and he said practice and using a metal pick with thicker gauge strings helps with tone. I use 11 gauge strings but I never got used to using a metal pick and still use my dunlop ultex pick. All in all I can do the harmonic I just can't make it scream like his. Maybe one day with enough persistence haha
liquidSpin and that's always been the challenge when learning songs you love. You want them to sound exactly like the original. I've slaved over Steve's outro solo for photograph from the in the round trying to perfect every note. Drives me crazy
Memories of the summer of 1992 flood right back!! Who says you can't time travel? This was a great song, great album at a great time. It's amazing to me how well the music of DL has aged compared to other big bands of their era! 🤘
Step by step, easy and slow, on the stairway to heaven, what a way to go.. It just doesn't get any better than that...I can NEVER just listen once.. Or even just 10 times.. It reaches inside of me, moves me like nothing else
@@miken2213 what a nice thing to say, you never know what someone's going thru so something small to you can have huge impact on someone else... Was told just the opposite and much worse everyday for 2 years.. Haven't dated or hooked up since December cuz I trust no one ... Thank you for being kind
Joe Elliot your my all time favorite Singer❤❤❤😊
Another good song from post 1990 Def Leppard.
They were young in 1983 when they had a huge success with 1983's Pyromania album and Tour. Rick Allen was only 21 when after that Tour he received a big pay day and bought a Corvette which almost cost him his Life in the accident. He lost only an arm but for a drummer this likely lead to an increased risk for depression and suicide. However, Rick was able to deal with the situation which inspired many.
In 1991, guitarist Steve Clark's inability to handle his situation(alcoholism and pill-popping) did cost him his Life(RIP).
From 92's Adrenalize album on, DL began recording many more ballads and positive-vib songs which bordered on Christian Rock with song's like:
Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad, Stand Up Kick Love into Motion , Two Steps Behind, When Love & Hate Collide, Miss You In A Heartbeat , Breathe A Sigh, We Belong, Good Bye , Long Long Way To Go , Promises , Now, Wings Of An Angel and Work It Out.
If any band could convert you to become a rock fan it's this band. Love their sound. ❤🎉
Cómo dijo Elliot," no somos glam ,no somos hard,ni mucho menos metal ,somos una banda que toca rock ,solo rock and roll .
December 2023.... and still the ONLY band for me!
ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL !!!
To me the BEST Band Ever!
Absolutely
For me they're #1 and always will be!!!
Thanks to the mutt dog
You said it
Adrenalize doesn’t get the credit it’s due, even after being a glam metal album that succeeded during Grunge. A brilliant album
Mistake Def Lep fans are Def Lep fans with or without grunge ....
I totally agree, an awesome album right from the start all the way through, probably there best ever
"If you lay your cards on the table, I'll lay my love on the line, till you're mine"
Such poetry
Have this and all their other CD. Great music and harmonies. Saw them in concert , their voices are genuine and easy to listen to. Great talent for songwriting through the years
If you are ready or not you know before the step.
That’s my favourite line from the song ❤️
@@Priyadarshan_Nag Me too
@priyadarshannag9782 Steve Clark wrote this song. Mutt Lange decided to trash the original that Steve had played on. It's on UA-cam as Stand Up Demo. On that demo, you'll hear Steve and Phil playing together. In this one, Mutt made Phil redo all of Steve's parts. Phil stated that having to learn to play like Steve was very difficult, and took a long time.
So sad. 😢
Def Leppard's best power ballad and seriously underrated. The Adrenalize album instantly transports me back to being a 7 or 8 year old kid in the early 90s. Granted this sound was already fading away fast by 1992/early 93 but at that age I had no idea and just liked it for what it was
absolutely agree with you my friend!
I was 18 in March of 1992 when I bought Adrenalize album and this was my favorite power ballad
Thank you. Exactly. I was 13/14 and same. It was magical to me.
This is one of my favorites but--------I have to tell every one Love and affection Hysterya is the most underrrated ballad.. This is a master piece
Fuckin A!
This is one of the greatest rock ballads ever made. It’s a pity that at the time grunge dominated the radio so this song never really got the credit it deserved.
Grunge was never popular in most countries if u think about it so i honestly don't know why Grunge was so big In U.S during that time
it was number one on the rock charts....in the US. But it does seem to be forgotten over time, which sucks because it's an amazing song....sounds alot like Hysteria.
For what it’s worth, I like both grunge and this because they rock for different reasons. Mostly Alice In Chains though.
@@LaVasu-l8i Because Americans are stupid and have poor taste in music.
And it still hit the Top 40.
There isn't a single Def Leppard song that isn't absolutely fantastic!
Def Leppard is just not a band, they show how the friendship is taken.
Long live for Joe, Sav, Phil, and Rick. Luv you all!
and Viv
And steve 😢
Yea don’t forget the guy that wrote the song. RIP Steve Clark
RIP Steve! You did a great, tremendous job with this balad! You are so missed!
Phil collen and Vivian. Steve was already gone.
@@NiceterCoolsterVivian didn’t start with the band until the Slang album. This is before Steve passed.
@@adambell5399the cover of adrenalize showed Vivian instead of Steve and the song credits all go to Vivian and Phil for guitars.
@@adambell5399no, this was after Steve passed. He wrote this song but died before being able to record the final track. Most of the songs on Adrenalize were this way.
I believe Phil recorded all guitar parts for this album IIRC
Steve wrote all of these songs.
Leppard's BEST ballad by far-yet did not receive the recongition or exposure that Hysteria did because it came out in the middle of the "grunge" craze
Def Leppard had it together in the 80s and 90s. Love their music.
@JeremyBishop-c5d...and still Do! 💋 11/26/2024
The first 26 seconds gives me goosebumps ❤❤❤❤❤
Love this ballad .
Sometimes I wish I was older to have enjoyed the music of Def Leppard ❤
I play Def every day….you came to my life and you changed me
Def Leppard 4 EVER
I have nothing to say, you already wrote it.
Amen mate been a fan for years and will continue to be ❤❤❤ def leppard
It takes me back to a time when the world was all about love..the 90"s man how we miss that era😢😢😢😢
I don't know why but once the intro comes out, I think of Steve and I can't help myself but crying 😭
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made.
This album withstood the onset of grunge singlehandedly. Remember buying the album in Sept 1992.
This music will never die while I am alive.Loud,heart felt,soul music.After three and a half months in a deep coma,I needed something to believe in through my very difficult recovery.
Thanks Def Leppard,your music gave me the strength to live,to rebuild my life.Step by Step,coming back from heaven and hell.Shaking me into motion.I was lucky to make a full recovery and continue living my life,standing up.
I was in in hospital for 4 months, listening and watching Def Leppard was the only thing that kept me sane.
Back in the day when this album came out i was a Bartender this song was on constant play on the jukebox the whole Bar would sing the corus 😎 magical times 👍
That's an awesome story 🙂👍🏼🤘🏼
And revisionists think this music was already dead. They were wrong.
I know the feelign, I was stuiding with this song on my College years!
Kids these days will never know great music love this band always will 💙💙
I'm 18 and I love pre-grunge music
NOT TRUE!! A kid came into my store today with an adrenalize shirt on.I told him I was at that concert.
13 years old here, and I absolutely LOVE almost all of Def Leppards songs, been listening to these songs since I was 7
Truly good music knows no age limit. ♥️
Till the day I leave this earth I will always listen and be a fan God bless def leppard ❤
I dont care what anybody says. I loved this album then and now
Hysteria still my fav but Adrenalize had some good songs like this, White Lightning and Tear it Down. Miss 1992 so much now.
Adrenalize is awesome !!!! Forever !!!
Adrenalize is my favorite too.
@@jhawmemmy9782 Tear it Down the original from 87 is better. Look it up
It had good reviews but people get stupid over the years.
I remember in college I would listen to this song and "promises" non stop, good memories ❤
Adrenalize is not a bad album at all, it just suffers from coming after 2 stone cold, all-time classic albums. This is, for me, Lepp's best ballad.
In an era when the Power Ballad had been beaten into the ground, this gem from Def Leppard proved that it could still be done well. Another timeless song...
2023 and still love all things Def Leppard. So many memories from late teens and early 20s, still my favorite band ever!
Arguably their most underrated song! It's about time they threw this into a live set. Now's as good a time as any in Vegas as they're playing a lot of rarer stuff
Chris Winn agreed!! I love this song from the second I heard it I was raised in the 80s Def Leppard was and will always be the best group from that era!
100% agree brutha. One of the most underrated songs of all time
People don't realize how much great music Def Leppard is responsible for
Some of us do, even millennials 😂
I was hospitalized when this record was released. I was suffering from a chronic intestinal disease back then, and that's when I met my future wife... we are still married to this very day. This record literally changed my life.
Just one of so MANY gifts the late genius Steven Maynard "The Riffmaster" Clark left this band. Steve has it all - live he dripped rock star genuine cool. As Viv says verbatim "90% of what we play Steve left us". Steve's gift remains incalculable !!
This really is a beautiful guitar layered song, one of their best imo !!
The vocal harmonies baby....kudos to mutt Lange..perfect song for this...
Every time I feel lonely. Listen to this song.
Me too...just lost my wife... know her since she was 11 yrs old.. married since 91.. when I came home from desert storm.. semper fi.
Take a few listens of this magical tune, regroup and move forward in a positive manner, gentlemen. I hope this finds you guys well.
Greatest band of all time
hell yeah
I agree ;0
Queen and Def leppard :)
YES THEY ARE!
God bless you 😇🙏 for saying that 🙏😇
You really can feel the ghost of Steve still on this track.
Def Leppard from UK England 🇬🇧.
Sheffield !!! ;-)
@@lordofglencoe7084Sheffield is in the house😊
The only way to listen to this song is LOUD
agreeeeed
Totally True,
😀😀😀
DOLBY ATMOS MODE ON!
@@nyybrat98në .nn .ç0 . O . N.
Def Leppard
Once heard ...
...never stopped listening
The best song by Def Leppard
Def Leppard will always be #1. Always.
Best backing vocals!!
September 12,1993 Jackson ms. LOVED IT!!!
This was my moms absolute favorite song in the world. I grew up listening to Def Leppard, so I’m playing this at her funeral this week. ❤️
I am sorry for your loss. 😢
What a of many wonderful gifts was given to You from your mom.
best song on the album...feel like this could have been on Hysteria as well.
This is my fav leppard tune... listening to this reminds me lot about Steve Clark ( RIP) this was amongst the finest hallmark leppard music 🤘👽
Hallowed be thy name is the only one that makes me tremble. Welcome to heaven.
Easily the greatest power ballad ever recorded. Wish they played this live!!
Totally agree!! It's never ever been played live.
They didn't even play it live way back when it was their current single, which was a surprise and disappointment. I saw them just a few nights ago, and i was hoping... maybe, but no.
This song was composed to be included in the Hysteria album however they thougth the song was pretty seemed to Hysteria. So they took out Stand Up and later released it as a single.
Me to
Very underrated song
Three decades ago, Def Leppard decided to Stand Up. The British rock band was one of the best of all time!
It's been 15 years since I discovered this song. I still get the damn goosebumps. Thank God this band exists. Love to you all!
Adrenalize! one of the latest great Albums that bring up the Glory of the 80s HARD ROCK! on a depressed Grunch movement!
HELL YEAH!!!
Greetings from Steinbach, Manitoba🇨🇦 ~ Doug ~
Love u Def from South Puerto Rico Jah Bless
Way better days and way better bands back then
This song introduced me to Def Leppard back when it came out. I think it was the first CD I ever bought, had just got my first cd player back in 1993.
Listen to this song loud. Great Def Leppard song. One of the best ever.
This music is what it's all about. I'm still rocking at 60 years old.
Me to brother at 57 years young ❤😊
Am just surprised why this song was not included in their vault CD....
Always be my all time fav band.....miss the old time😢
This tune "Heaven Is" and "I Wanna Touch You" three of the most underrated tunes by the Lepps.
+ Love and Afection
I wanna touch U is such a beautiful song
Ah ah ah ....
One of my favorite Def Leppard songs
Lou really reaches down to the soles of his feet to pull out those gritty notes as this song begins to reach its crescendo. His voice only got better with time. He really has a story to tell about his life. The ups and downs of being in a world famous rock band. Then there was the surgery to remove a tumor to save his life. So glad God chose to keep you on this side of the dirt a little longer.
So many fantastic Def Leppard songs, but personally i would have to say this one is pinnacle
This was the first song I ever heard from Def Leppard when I was 12 years old. I fell in love with Def Leppard and I’m still in love 27 years later. Such good memories. ❤️❤️❤️
As beautiful as you are baby noke Cleveland
Good taste lady!!!!!!!!!
Stand Up and Love and Affection are their most underrated songs. DL were geniuses at belting out ballads but it’s like the industry only wanted to promote their hard rock image so kept releasing more rock songs over ballads.
Youre the only other person I've ever seen mention Love and Affection!! One of their very best!!
This song is one of the most underrated Def Leppard Songs, it’s an absolute gem, along with the album Adrenalize. I wish they play this live one day.
Best lap dance I ever got at the No. 5 Orange to this song. Tipped the dancer $100 just for dancing to this song. EPIC!
Best $150 I ever spent
That's awesome hahah, another good stripper song is The Zoo, by the Scorpion
Radio ignored this song because they were too interested in playing Nirvana 24/7 and Jeremy by Pearl Jam. Good. This gem was never killed and we get to play it on our radio. Same thing with "have you ever needed someone so bad". I bought this tape cassette when it first came out and it was the last cassette I ever bought because CD's became the thing.
In case anyone was wondering. The business man in the room high above Manhattan is Leps manager Peter Mensch and the guy hitting the balls up to him is the other half of the management team Cliff Burnstein. Video was shot in NYC on 10/26/92
And
Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein are also Metallica’s managers, which is kind of funny.
One of the underrated tracks from one hell of a rock band. Radio should always play this on air.
Here it is, the beginning of 2022. A long time from when I was 18, and this song came out. That's right at three decades, ago. And, it still sounds better than anything being put out, today.... hands down. 'Nuff said.
Wild truth told.
Darn right 👉
Absolutely 110%
Well, it’s the first day of 2023, and this awesome song sounds better than ever!
@@tichdaddy1 ...Yes, it surely does !
This brings back so many good memories growing up in 80s.Best years Hot. 80s Rocked. We love you Def Leppard 💋♥️🇺🇸
Another Def Leppard masterpiece
Wow Truly amazing Song. So Awesome. One Greatest Band Fans can sing along.
STAND up.
Kick LOVE INTO MOTION.
❤🙏🌍🕊❤🌍🙏🦄
One of their best. Wish they would do this for a live show/album. Good job guys.
4,400 Thumbs up versus 105 Thumbs Down...not a bad ratio at all. Good, because this is the best Def Leppard song on Adrenalize (in my opinion.)
Def Leppard is and was but in vise versa the best 80's rock band.
I wish they would play the song live, and more songs from Adrenalize.
This is by far my favorite song on this album!!! Love the song and video!!!!
One of the best rock band of all ages.
They should play live this song!
On me and my wife’s behalf this was real music and none of what passes as ‘ music ‘ today
This is the greatest rock and roll love ballad I have ever had the pleasure of hearing, thank you DEF LEPPARD!!
Great people making great music = Def Leppard, I loved them ;)
One of the best tracks on Adrenalize. Still has my favorite guitar solo ever in any song. Just love the way it sounds, so melodic~
liquidSpin Steve's demo solo for this song was much better though I have to admit
Better is subjective. I've heard the demo version and it's awesome but it screams 80's and wasn't unique like the one on the album. I love playing the solo on my guitar but copying Phil's pinch harmonic is next to impossible.
liquidSpin yeah I don't bother with the pinch harmonic. Stand up was the first song I ever properly learned now come to think of it. At the time Phil's solo was too hard for me to do so I learnt the demo one instead. That's probably why I prefer it it has that nostalgia to me as being my first solo
I actually met Phil and got to chat with him (He was kind enough to sign my Jackson PC1) I asked how he does his pinch harmonics on songs like Stand Up and All I want is Everything (outro solo) and he said practice and using a metal pick with thicker gauge strings helps with tone. I use 11 gauge strings but I never got used to using a metal pick and still use my dunlop ultex pick. All in all I can do the harmonic I just can't make it scream like his. Maybe one day with enough persistence haha
liquidSpin and that's always been the challenge when learning songs you love. You want them to sound exactly like the original. I've slaved over Steve's outro solo for photograph from the in the round trying to perfect every note. Drives me crazy
Memories of the summer of 1992 flood right back!! Who says you can't time travel? This was a great song, great album at a great time. It's amazing to me how well the music of DL has aged compared to other big bands of their era! 🤘
Step by step, easy and slow, on the stairway to heaven, what a way to go.. It just doesn't get any better than that...I can NEVER just listen once.. Or even just 10 times.. It reaches inside of me, moves me like nothing else
Your beautiful
@@miken2213 what a nice thing to say, you never know what someone's going thru so something small to you can have huge impact on someone else... Was told just the opposite and much worse everyday for 2 years.. Haven't dated or hooked up since December cuz I trust no one ... Thank you for being kind
Your comment is beautiful just like you.
I got tickets to see them in Minneapolis! Can't wait!
In my and millions others. Yous Rock. Heart gold still my and millions other's 💛 💓 💖
Was there in Fresno then to see them in concert! God bless the Leps!
In all honesty, this would have to be one of their best songs...that chorus...
May 1,2023. Still listening to this song
Def Leppard forever the best band
“On the stairway to Heaven,
What a way to go!”
Brilliant. ❤️
Обожаю эту группа! Шикарные! Великолепный вокал и музыка! Готова слушать бесконечно! 👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤
DEF LEPPARD is carved on ours soul, lifes and entire generations
This is pure slow jam semi-gloss stadium rock. Very much of its time.
Love this band
Classic Def Leppard here!...Great track...
you can say what you want about the song itself..... but this is truly one of the best music videos ever made
Play. Repeat. Play. Repeat. Play. Repeat...