#Songs with the words rock on in them movie#

Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. The song's video was placed on New York Times list of the 15 Essential Hair-Metal Videos. Former Def Leppard co-manager Peter Mensch appears in this video as one of the monks. The music video was directed by David Mallet and shot on 8 December 1982 (Guitarist Phil Collen's 25th birthday), in Battersea, London, England. In the book, he saw the words ' Rock of Ages', which prompted him to write the lyrics of the song. Title Īccording to the liner notes of the compilation release Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection, the band was at a recording studio when lead vocalist Joe Elliott stumbled upon a hymn book left by a member of a children's choir that had just used the studio. When played forward the phrases 'Fuck the Russians' and ' Brezhnev's got herpes' can be heard. Young's line would later become immortalized in rock history when it was used in the suicide note of grunge pioneer Kurt Cobain.ĭuring the guitar solo, several vocal phrases were backmasked.

#Songs with the words rock on in them movie#

Def Leppard's four-line version was quoted in the 1986 movie Highlander by the film's villain, the Kurgan. Īs the song's melody begins, Elliott speaks the lines, 'All right/I've got something to say/It's better to burn out/Than to fade away' the second two lines are a reference to Neil Young's song ' Hey Hey, My My (Out of the Blue)'. Lange was a perfectionist and would often do dozens & dozens of takes, and after repeatedly beginning so many with the standard count, 'One, two, three, four' he simply started saying nonsense words instead, the band liking this one so much that they included it on the album. It's actually just German-sounding gibberish, said by producer Mutt Lange during one of the later takes of the song. These four words that you hear at the start of 'Rock of Ages', mean nothing, though the band sometimes jokingly claims it means 'running through the forest silently'. According to the official Def Leppard FAQ, The song begins with 'Gunter glieben glauten globen', a German-like nonsense phrase introduced by Mutt Lange, who is of German descent.