Def Leppard

Released: August 3, 1987

Songwriter: Richard Savage Robert John Lange Steve Clark Phil Collen Joe Elliott

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Intro]
Run for cover
Don't shoot! Shoot!
She's so dangerous
Shotgun, gun
Don't shoot shotgun

[Verse 1]
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right
Falling head over heals at the speed of light
Hey little Miss Heaven on earth
Whoa, won't you walk this way but I see a red alert
Oh, my senses say keep away, so don't shoot
Don't shoot shotgun dream on nightmare
Touch and go dove turned destroyer
She cut you up, she's a slave of love
Run for cover, she's so dangerous
Undercover, she's so shameless

[Chorus]
Don't shoot shotgun
You got me biting my lip
Don't shoot shotgun
You shooting straight from the hip
So don't shoot shotgun
Shoot me, baby!

[Verse 2]
Hit and miss, flesh and blood
She's sweet and indiscreet, she can't get enough
A little midnight madness oh baby, you can't hide
So wild and unpredictable step aside
Because you're, you're shooting wide
Run for cover, she's so dangerous
Undercover, she's so shameless

[Chorus]
Don't shoot shotgun
You got me biting my lip
Don't shoot shotgun
You shooting straight from the hip
Oh shake it, shake it!
Ah, take this, little hit and miss

[Chorus]
Don't shoot shotgun
You got me biting my lip
Don't shoot shotgun
You shooting straight from the hip
Don't shoot it don't shoot shotgun
Shake it, shake it take this little hit and miss

[Outro]
Don't shoot shotgun
Oh shoot it! Don't shoot it
Oh shotgun! Shoot me, baby
Let it blow!

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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