Def Leppard

Released: April 25, 2008

Songwriter: Vivian Campbell

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

[Verse 1]
I saw you on a screen
An icon, a legend, a king
I heard it in a song
That's still going strong

[Chorus 1]
A shooting star across the sky
You kiss the earth and say goodbye

[Chorus 2]
Only the good die young
Only the good die young
Crashing into the sun
Only the good die young
They will always be here

[Verse 2]
I saw you in a dream
You're falling apart at the seams
I heard it in your voice
That you had no choice
This genius is a heavy load
It leads you down a lonely road
But love never dies

[Chorus 2]

[Verse 3]
Living inside out
Oh turn this chariot
Like a diamond in the sky
You take me so far away

[Chorus 1]

[Chorus 2]
Only the good die young
Only the good die young
Crashing into the sun
Only the good die young
Only the good die young

[Outro]
Only the good die young [x5]

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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