Clark was involved in writing six of the songs on the album, [8] but was given an ultimatum over his alcoholism in September 1990, and put on a six-month leave of absence.

There’s no overriding concept to the album, no sense of the group’s confronting its demons or wrestling with the problems of the world; instead, what we get is a seemingly unending string of energetic, hook-heavy, gosh-we-luv-’em songs about girls. At the same time this was also issued in Japan (no picture disc) along with a Mega Edition featuring these two tracks on CD1 and the 'In The Clubs-In Your Face' Live E.Engineer [Additional], Programmed By, Sequenced By – Pete "Proto-type Genius, Technical Wizard, Boffin From Hell, All-Round Grafter And Nice Chap (Give Him A Job, Trev! Adrenalize is so relentlessly catchy that it almost seems as if the band is about to abandon its heavy-metal roots for the greener fields of hard pop. In fairness, the band’s tardiness isn’t entirely the product of foot dragging, as the death of guitarist Steve Clark undoubtedly slowed this album (and doubled fellow guitarist Phil Collen’s workload) even more than the loss of drummer Rick Allen’s arm complicated the completion of Hysteria.

Long-awaited doesn’t just mean that the band in question took its sweet time delivering the disc; usually, it’s industry code for “bloated and overblown. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Spawning seven singles, four of them – " Let's Get Rocked", " Make Love Like a Man", " Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad", and " Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" – were major hits.This was also the band's first album since 1980's On Through the Night not to be produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.