Def Leppard

Released: August 3, 1987

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

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Intro]
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?

Stand up, say yeah, stand up
Stand up, say yeah, stand up

[Verse 1]
Ah, this obsession
It's getting a-inviting
A little a, X-rated
A little bit exciting

[Chorus 1]
Stand up, stand up, say yeah
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, say yeah
Say yeah, stand up

[Chorus 2]
Come on get in the groove
You know I get so excitable
I really get so excitable
I want to get you excitable
So come on, let's go
Ah, baby, don't say no

[Verse 2]
Ah, this temptation
It gets-a a-outrageous
Ha, it's such a, a sensation
A little bit contagious, hey, hey

[Chorus 1]
Stand up, stand up, say yeah
Stand up, stand up
Stand up, stand up, say yeah
Say yeah, stand up

[Chorus 2]
Come on get in the groove
You know I get so excitable
I really get so excitable
I want to get you excitable
So baby, let's go

[Bridge]
Are you excitable?
Are you excitable?
Obsession, obsession
Check it out, hey

[Verse 3]
Inch by inch, mile by mile
What I do I do in style
You got your leather, la-lace, long and lean
Ballistic a lipstick dream machine
You got to do it
Ah, do it, do it
Hey, come on and do it

[Chorus 2]
You know I get so excitable
I really get so excitable
I want to get you excitable
So come on, let's go

I really get so excitable
You know I get so excitable
I want to get you excitable
So beby on, let's go excitable

You know I get so excitable
I really get so excitable
I want to get you excitable
Excitable, excitable

[Outro]
Baby, let's go, excitable
You got me shivering, excitable

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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