Def Leppard

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Pete Willis Steve Clark

Producer: Robert John Lange

Gypsy
Sitting, looking pretty
A broken rose with laughing eyes

You're a mystery
Always running wild
Like a child without a home

You're always searching
Searching for a feeling
But it's easy come and easy go

Oh, I'm sorry but it's true
You're bringing on the heartache
Taking all the best of me
Oh, can't you see?
You got the best of me
Whoa, can't you see?

You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache
You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache
Can't you see?
Ohh

You're such a secret
Misty-eyed and shady
Lady, how you hold the key

Ohh, you're like a candle
Your flame's slowly fading
Burning out and burning me

Can't you see?
Just trying to say to you
You're bringing on the heartache
Taking all the best of me
Oh, can't you see?
You got the best of me
Whoa, can't you see?

You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache
You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache

Can't you see?
Can't you see?

No
No
No

You got the best of me
Oh, can't you see?
You got the best of me
Whoa, can't you see?

You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache
You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache

You're bringing on the heartbreak
Bringing on the heartache
You're bringing on the heartbreak

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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