"Make Love Like a Man" is a 1992 single by British

United Kingdom

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 hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Def Leppard

Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Since 1992, the band have consisted of Joe Elliott , Rick Savage , Rick Allen , Phil Collen , and Vivian Campbell...

 from their multi-platinum album Adrenalize

Adrenalize

-Deluxe Edition :*Tracks 1-4 are taken from the band's Live: In the Clubs, in Your Face EP, recorded at Bonn, Germany, on 29 May 1992*Tracks 5 & 6 taken from "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" single....

. The song reached #3 on the Mainstream Rock

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 charts, and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100

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.

In a Joe Elliot statement on the "Vault" compilation album, he stated that this song was not about Def Leppard trying to be "MACHO", and were just trying to be funny about the content of this song. The statement only appears on the UK version of Vault, as the track is not included on the American version. Elliot made a similar note in the album booklet for the later "Best Of" compilation, joking that "everyone thought we were turning into Manowar" and explaining that the band had come to terms with the then-recent death of guitarist Steve Clark

Steve Clark

Stephen Maynard Clark was an English musician, co-lead guitarist for the British hard rock band Def Leppard up until his death in 1991 due to a combination of alcohol and multiple prescription drugs...

 on the album track "White Lightning" and wanted to have a lighter song on the album.

Track listings

• CD: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPCB 7 (UK) / 866 991-2 (INT)

1. "Make Love Like a Man"
2. "Miss you in a Heartbeat"
3. "Action"
4. "Two Steps Behind (Acoustic)"

• 12": Bludgeon Riffola / LEPXP 7 (UK) / INT 866 991-1 / Picture Disc

This 12" single picture disc has the Adrenalize graphic inside an eye in the cover. On the back side of the picture disc has the picture of Phil Collen. The back cardboard has the 12" single information and a band picture. Pictures by Ross Halfin. Artwork and Design by Andie Airfix at Satori.

1. "Make Love Like a Man"
2. "Miss You in a Heartbeat"
3. "Two Steps Behind (Acoustic)"

• Cassette Single: Mercury / 864 038-4 (US)

1. "Make Love Like a Man"
2. "Miss You in a Heartbeat"

• Cassette Single: Bludgeon Riffola / 866 990-4 / LEPMC7 (UK)

1. "Make Love Like a Man"
2. "Miss You in a Heartbeat"