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“Hysteria” is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard. It served as the titular third single from their 1987 multi-platinum album of the same name. “Hysteria” peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. On , frontman Joe Elliott revealed that the song title came from drummer Rick Allen. The mellow ballad features a clean guitar melody and heavily multi-tracked vocals in its chorus. The “extreme” nature of producer Mutt Lange’s recording methods is also exampled in the chorus, where the clean guitar chords were recorded one note at a time as opposed to the traditional method of strumming them, in effect “building” a chord by recording the notes that make them up as one would build a wall by stacking bricks upon each other one-by-one as confirmed by Recording Engineer... Read on...