Love Bites by Def Leppard

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By the time the fifth single from Hysteria “Love Bites” was released, the album had finally picked up steam in the US, hitting #1 almost a full year after it was released. This song became the band’s first (and only) chart-topper in the US, reaching #1 in the fall of 1988 – more than a full year after the album came out. “Love Bites” was the third single released overseas from the album and it performed very well in late 1987 in The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. In 2017, Billboard included it in a list of the band’s best songs, calling it “a midtempo love song that hums with yearning, driven by an engaging rhythm guitar”.