Def Leppard

Released: October 30, 2015

Songwriter: Richard Savage

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

Do you remember
When we used to dance?
Lighting up the universe
Living life for what it's worth
We took a chance

Do you remember
When we used to sing?
Shooting stars across the sky
A fire that would never die
It was everything

It was all that we wanted
And there was everything we'd need
We were gonna live forever
'cos we believed

Do you remember
When we used to play?
We were right and we were wrong
Dancing to a different song every day
We were gonna live forever

Is this our last chance?
Is this our last try?
Is this our last dance
Before we turn around
And say goodbye?
Do you remember when we used to dance?

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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