Def Leppard

Released: October 30, 2015

Songwriter: Phil Collen

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

Bow to the man who gets to
Give with what he can
Kneel to the universal mother
Say a prayer for that child
Where no one cares
Give a hand to help your brother

We got need for the greedy
And greed for the needy
We eat to feed on one another
Warmth for the chosen
Only fear the frozen
Sincerity lives undercover

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You'll be sailing the sea of love
Open your mind be careful what you find

Hail to the love with only
Love to discover
A broken heart for consolation
Bread for the winner
Others starve for their dinner
The noble cause is in vain

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You'll be sailing the sea of love
Open your mind be careful what you find

Try breaking while your hearts not beating
Try bleeding when you start to feel
Try crawling while the sky is falling
Try walking while you're standing still

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You'll be sailing the sea of love
Unlock your mind and let your true love shine

Set adrift on the sea of love
Ride on the breeze with only heaven above
You'll be sailing the sea of love
Keep yourself alive take your mission to survive
Open your mind believe in what you find

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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