All the Call-Outs in Def Leppard's 'Hysteria' Hit 'Rocket'
Released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from Hysteria, Def Leppard's "Rocket" is notable for a bunch of call-outs to songs and artists who influenced the band. The six-and-a-half-minute track was inspired by Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love” and propelled by a trumped-up sample of the massive tribal drumming from Burundi Steiphenson Black’s 1971 number "Burundi Black." But the track is best remembered for the references to their heroes, and the gallery below details them all. Joe Elliott sings almost in staccato at times while nodding to the Beatles, David Bowie, Elto...