Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Retro Video of the Week: "Me and My Wine" by Def Leppard

This is probably the best Def Leppard song that was never released on a studio album (or greatest hits album, for that matter).  It was the B-side on the "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" single in 1981, and then it was remixed in 1984 and put on a re-released version of High 'n' Dry, neither of which were widely available in the U.S., at least as far as I remember, so the song was kind of a mystery that you only heard every once in a while if you were lucky.  The video was made in 1984, as you can tell by the fact that Phil Collen is in it (prior guitarist Pete Willis played on the original version, but was replaced by Collen after High 'n' Dry).  And, of course, you can tell right away that this video was made before December 31, 1984 because Rick Allen still has two arms.  The video was featured on 1988's Historia (a collection of the band's videos from 1980-1988), which you can sure as shit assume I own on VHS and DVD.  Thank yoouuu!

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