Released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from Hysteria, Def Leppard's "Rocket" is notable for a bunch of call-outs to songs and artists who influenced the band. The ...
“Rocket” began with an African drum pattern inspired by “Burundi Black” by French pianist and composer Michel Bernholc. (Bernholc used the pseudonym Mike Steiphenson, though “Burundi Black” is ...