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Hello AmericaDef Leppard

Released: November 17, 1979

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Richard Savage Steve Clark

Producer: Tom Allom

[Chorus 1]
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

[Chorus 2]
Well I'm taking me a trip I'm going down to California
Yeah, I'm going to try Hollywood and San Pedro Bay
I'll tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to give my love to you
I'm going to take you where the lights are bright
I'm going to give you my love tonight

[Chorus 1]
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

[Verse]
I'm going to get me a greyhound bus down the motorway
I'm going to spend a little time in Frisco and L.A
But when it gets to twelve o'clock
And you feel that you got to rock
You'd better let your hair hang down
So we can boogie all over town

[Chorus 1]
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

[Chorus 2]
Well I'm taking me a trip I'm going down to California
Yeah, I'm going to try Hollywood and San Pedro Bay
I'll tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to give my love to you
I'm going to take you where the lights are bright
I'm going to give you my love tonight

[Chorus 1]
Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

Hello America, hello America
Hello America, hello America

Def Leppard

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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