Def Leppard

Released: October 30, 2015

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

The cracks are starting to show
'cos you've had it real bad
You've had it real bad
Your mind is starting to blow
'cos you want it real bad
You want it real bad

Your heart is such a deep divide
And your love is just a love denied
And you want to be
Forever young forever young

You got a hunger for lust
But the high is too much
It's always too much
The world gets in your face
It's throwing you round
It's pushing you down

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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