"Wasted" is a song by English

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On Through the Night ''On Through the Night'' is the debut studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 14 March 1980. The album was produced by Tom Allom. It charted at No. 15 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 51 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album feat ...

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Overview

The recording featured on the single is a different version from the ''On Through the Night'' LP. The B-Side on the single is "Hello America", which is also a different recording from the LP. These alternative, single-only versions of "Wasted" and "Hello America" had never been released on CD, until 2018 when they were included as part of ''The Collection: Volume One'' box set, as the first two tracks of the ''Rarities: Volume One'' disc. The record was produced by Nick Tauber, who the band selected because of his previous clients, particularly

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. Two other songs, " Rock Brigade" (also re-recorded for ''On Through the Night'') and "Glad I'm Alive", were recorded during the session but were shelved when the band's management were displeased with the production, thus resulting in the "Wasted" b/w "Hello America" 7" single rather than the planned 4-song EP. A re-recording of "Hello America" subsequently became the band's first single heralding the arrival of ''On Through the Night''. Unused promotional videos for "Wasted" and "Rock Brigade", filmed in London in the fall of 1979, surfaced on YouTube in 2009 when they were uploaded by the director of the clips. This was the first time the Tauber version of "Rock Brigade" appeared anywhere, which left "Glad I'm Alive" as the only song from those sessions to remain hidden. All four songs, however, are included in the box set '' The Early Years 79–81'' which was released on March 20, 2020. Although Def Leppard has all but disowned ''On Through the Night'', "Wasted" has nonetheless been played live occasionally on some recent tours (since 1999) to the present – being the only song from that album apart from six performances of "Rock Brigade" in 2005 and 2013 to be performed since the completion of the ''Pyromania'' tour.

Track listing

UK 7" single # "Wasted" # "Hello America"

Charts

References

{{Authority control Def Leppard songs 1979 songs Songs written by Joe Elliott Songs written by Steve Clark Mercury Records singles