When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #19 on the Cash Box Top 100.

[7] The song begins with "Gunter glieben glauten globen", a German-like nonsense phrase introduced by Mutt Lange, who is of German descent.

[10] Def Leppard's four-line version was quoted in the 1986 movie Highlander by the film's villain, The Kurgan.

[12] According to the liner notes of the compilation release Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection, the band was at a recording studio when lead vocalist Joe Elliott stumbled upon a hymn book left by a member of a children's choir that had just used the studio.

"[10] The music video was directed by David Mallet[14] and shot on 8 December 1982 (guitarist Phil Collen's 25th birthday), in Battersea, London, England.