“Round and Round” by Ratt

"Round and Round" was Ratt's 1984 single on Atlantic, pulled from their album Out of the Cellar, and it struts like it owns the Sunset Strip. The band built it the way they built everything back then: Robbin Crosby and Warren DeMartini taped riffs and melodies onto cassettes in their Strip apartment and swapped them back and forth until the pieces locked together. Stephen Pearcy has said the words are simply the group staking its claim, gearing up to go do what it does.

They'd been playing it live through 1983, but the bridge only arrived when producer Beau Hill suggested one, and it's the hook that tips the song from sleaze into pure glam metal candy. Louder later ranked it number six among the great hair metal anthems.

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