"Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" is a 1993 single by English

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band

Def Leppard Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, ...

from their

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album '' Adrenalize''. The song reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard''

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charts, and #34 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. This was the fourth single from the ''Adrenalize'' album.

Background

Phil Collen Philip Kenneth Collen (born 8 December 1957) is an English musician who is best known as the co-lead guitarist for the rock band Def Leppard. Collen joined the band in 1982 during the recording of the ''Pyromania'' album. Before joining Def Le ...

, according to a statement on the ''Rock of Ages'' and ''Best Of'' compilations albums, says that this song was written at

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while Def Leppard was recording the album ''

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''. It was written by Collen and

Steve Clark Stephen Maynard Clark (23 April 1960 – 8 January 1991) was an English musician. He was a guitarist and songwriter for the hard rock band Def Leppard until his death in 1991. In 2007, Clark was ranked No. 11 on ''Classic Rock Magazine's'' "1 ...

. This song was not included on ''Hysteria'', since the band thought it was very similar to the song "

Video

The

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was directed by Matt Mahurin,((( Def Leppard UK.com ))) :: Def Video 4 Adrenalize
/ref> and features Def Leppard managers Peter Mensch and Cliff Burnstein as a business man and

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player, respectively. Filming took place on 26 October 1992. The outdoors footage was captured near

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. A censored version blurs the naked couple on the close up scene. The video peaked at number 3 on the US MTV Top 20 Countdown.

Track listing

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / 862 027-2 (Australia) / limited edition digipak

# "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" # "She's Too Tough" # " Elected" (live) (

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cover) # " Let's Get Rocked" (live)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control Def Leppard songs 1993 singles Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange 1992 songs Songs written by Steve Clark Songs written by Phil Collen Songs written by Joe Elliott Mercury Records singles Music videos directed by Matt Mahurin Rock ballads British pop rock songs