Def Leppard

Released: October 30, 2015

Songwriter: Joe Elliott

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

You ask me to be your savior
But I'm the poster boy for bad behavior

I'm on the edge it's a long way down
Living out loud at the speed of sound
I can hear you calling out my name

You tell me that fate is calling
'cos all you see is darkness falling

Don't let go don't lose your grip
Fire and ice at your fingertips
Can't you hear me calling out for more?
You knock me out like a wrecking crew
I'm back on my feet and all over you
Faster than I've ever been before

I'm on an all time high
Never giving up never giving up
Never gonna die
I'm on an all time high
You gimme the wings
You gimme the reason to fly

Shine your light and I will find you
Follow me I'm right behind you
This is the lifeblood on which I feed
Take what you want I got all I need
There ain't no mountain I can't climb

I once was knee deep in the mud
Lifeless and waiting for the flood
But now my heart is bursting at the seams
And I will not go quietly
No I will not go quietly

In 1977, Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis were students at a secondary school in Sheffield, England. They had a band called Atomic Mass. Lead singer Joe Elliott joined later that year, and suggested a new band name. Within 10 years, that name, Def Leppard, became one of the most recognised in English rock music. To date, they have released more than 40 singles.

Def Leppard was a definitive part of the new wave of British heavy metal bands in the late 1970s. Their first three albums had tremendous momentum, each outselling the one before. Then, after the release of Pyromania in 1983, drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident. The band stuck by him through his recovery and retraining.

When Def Leppard came back, they came back hard. Their fourth album, 1987’s Hysteria, was a hard rock masterpiece that took the world by storm. By then the music video had matured as a film style, and Hysteria’s singles and videos had enough pop, sex, colour, and glam to put it over the top. Hysteria was one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980s.

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