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"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Adrenalize
B-side	"From the Inside" "You Can't Always Get What You Want" "Little Wing"
Released	31 August 1992 (1992-08-31) (UK)
Length	5:20
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Joe Elliott Phil Collen Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer(s)	Mike Shipley Def Leppard
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Make Love Like a Man" (1992) "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" (1992) "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" (1992)

"Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" is a song by English hard rock band Def Leppard from their fifth studio album, Adrenalize (1992). In the United States, the song reached number seven on the Album Rock Tracks charts and number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the song the most successful single from the album in the US. The Acoustic Hippies from Hell, credited on the B-side tracks, was the name used by Def Leppard and the Hothouse Flowers performing together. The song was performed extensively during the Adrenalize and Slang tours but rarely after, most recently being done acoustically during the band's 2019 Vegas residency, and the 2022 Stadium Tour.

Track listings

CD: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPCD 8 (UK) / 864 151-2 (INT)

1. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
2. "From the Inside" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
3. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (Rolling Stones cover) (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
4. "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix cover) (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)

12-inch: Bludgeon Riffola / LEPXP 8 (UK) / INT 864 149-1 / picture disc

This 12-inch single picture disc has a stretched Adrenalize graphic in the cover. On the back side of the picture disc has the picture of Vivian Campbell. The back cardboard has the 12-inch single information and a band picture. Pictures by Ross Halfin. Artwork and Design by Andie Airfix at Satori.

1. "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad"
2. "From the Inside" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)
3. "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (The Acoustic Hippies from Hell)

Charts

References

1. "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 29 August 1992. p. 17.
2. "Def Leppard – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
3. "Top RPM Singles: Issue 1890." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
4. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
5. "Def Leppard – Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
6. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
7. "Def Leppard Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
8. "Def Leppard Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
9. "The RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1992" (PDF). RPM. Vol. 56, no. 25. 19 December 1992. p. 8. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
10. "Billboard Top 100 – 1992". Archived from the original on 8 July 2009. Retrieved 30 July 2010.

• Def Leppard songs
• 1990s ballads
• 1992 songs
• 1992 singles
• Mercury Records singles
• Music videos directed by Wayne Isham
• Songs written by Joe Elliott
• Songs written by Phil Collen
• Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange