Def Leppard

Released: October 25, 2019

Songwriter: Pete Willis Joe Elliott

Producer: Tom Allom

[Verse 1]
Who's the one to knock me over?
Who's the one to take me by surprise?
Who's the one who's out to get me?
Who will share my fantasy tonight?

[Chorus]
It could be you
It could be me
It could be anyone
It could be you
It could be me
It could be you
It could be anyone

[Verse 2]
Do you really know the story?
Have you really come to see the band?
Can you reach out for the glory?
Can you feel the nearness of my hand?

[Chorus]
It could be you
It could be me
It could be anyone

[Verse 3]
And if you look a little harder
You can see we're really all the same
And if you look a little deeper
Can't you see it's really all a game?

[Chorus]
It could be you
Instead of me
It could be anyone
It could be you
It could be me
It could be you
It could be anyone

[Outro]
Thank you
Good evening

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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The Early Years 79-81

From the album

The Early Years 79-81

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