Released: January 20, 1983

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Richard Savage Steve Clark Robert John Lange

Producer: Robert John Lange

Hold on to your hat, hold on to your heart
Ready, get set to tear this place apart
Don't need a ticket
Only place in town that'll take you up to heaven
And never bring you down

Anything goes
Anything goes

Women to the left, women to the right
There to entertain you and take you through the night
So grab a little heat and come along with me
'Cause your mama don't mind what your mama don't see

Anything goes
It's alright, come on
Anything goes

We're gonna rock rock 'til you drop
Rock rock, never stop
We're gonna rock rock 'til you drop
I said rock rock to the top

Ridin' into danger, laughin' all the way
Fast, free and easy, livin' for today
Got to lip service, get it while you can
Hot, sweat, n' nervous love on demand

Anything goes
Ow!
Anything goes all night long

We're gonna rock rock 'til you drop
Come on, rock rock, never stop
You gotta rock rock 'til you drop
Ohhh
Rock rock to the top
Oh yeah! Let's go!

(Guitar solo)

Rock rock, give it to me
It's what I got goin' through me
Don't ever stop, do it to me
Rock rock, you really move me
Oh yeah

Here we go!
Rock rock 'til you drop
Come on, rock rock, never stop
You gotta rock rock 'til you drop
We're gonna rock rock 'til you drop, gonna take it to the top
Rock rock 'til you drop
Yeah, oh
Rock rock, never stop
Come on, come on, come on!

Yeah!
Hold on, hold on, hold tight
We're gonna rock tonight. Too loud
Too loud, man, too loud

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.