Def Leppard

Released: July 6, 1981

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Pete Willis Richard Savage

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Verse 1]
Oh yeah
She was a foxy rocker, a roxy roller
An unchained sex machine
Yeah
Slipping, sliding, electric gliding
And boy she was mean, I said mean
High class dealer, sipping her tequila
Coming on pretty strong
Real love stealer, rebel rousing squealer
She said go but I said no

[Chorus]
I kept saying no, no no no no no
I kept saying no, no no no no no

[Verse 2]
Waiting at the back door
Couldn't take it anymore
Didn't know where she'd been
She looked pretty neat, turning on the heat
And only seventeen, seventeen
Winding her up, bringing her down
She wanted it just the same
Said stick around, that's when I found
I only had myself to blame

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
High class dealer, sipping on tequila
Coming on really strong
Rhythm stealer, rattle off squealer
She said go but I said no

[Chorus]
Well I kept saying no, no no no no no
Well I kept saying no, no no no no no
Well I kept saying no, no no no no no

[Outro]
I say no no no
I say no no no
I say no no
No no no no no no no
No no no no no no no

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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