Def Leppard

Released: July 6, 1981

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Steve Clark

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Verse 1]
Mirror, mirror
Just watching with your eye of glass
You're just a fortune wheel
With something that I want to ask

Mirror, mirror
Got my fate lying in your hands
You're the fool, you're the juggler
Hangman and lover, you're not like no other

[Chorus]
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me what you see
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it true?
(Take a look into my eyes) Oh, when I look at you
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it me?
Is it really me?

[Verse 2]
Mirror, mirror
Gotta know just what you see
My crystal ball
You're looking so sly and so sleazy

Mirror, mirror
Hanging there with that crack in your eye
You make me stumble, make me blind
Time after time and line by line

[Chorus]
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me what you see
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it true?
(Take a look into my eyes) Oh, when I look at you
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it me?

Mirror mirror
Oh, tell me

[Bridge]
You're the fool, you're the juggler
I ain't met a lover, you're like no other, so

[Chorus]
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me what you see
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it true?
(Take a look into my eyes) Oh, it just can't last
(Take a look into my eyes) Going to have to smash the glass

[Outro]
(Take a look into my eyes)
(Take a look into my eyes) Ah yeah
(Take a look into my eyes)
(Take a look into my eyes)

(Take a look into my eyes)
(Take a look into my eyes) Take a look, take a look
(Take a look into my eyes) Look into my eyes
(Take a look into my eyes) Tell me is it real
Baby, baby, baby, baby

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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