Def Leppard

Released: April 25, 2008

Songwriter: Richard Savage

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

[Verse 1]
Love, love look what you've done to my heart
Oh, I should have known from the start
That you'd go and tear it apart
Oh, and now you desert me

[Chorus 1]
You never lose, you never fail
You always live to tell the tale
You take me up, you bring me down
Without a touch, without a sound

[Chorus 2]
Love, love why do I keep searching high and low?
You take me in your arms then let me go

[Verse 2]
Oh, how long must it be until you
Come and run back to me?
Can't you see I got no release from the pain
Just to see you again

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]

[Bridge]
Love, don't let me go
When will your love set me free?
When will you come back to me?

[Chorus 2]

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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