Def Leppard

Released: October 25, 2019

Songwriter: Steve Clark Rick Allen Richard Savage Pete Willis Joe Elliott

Producer: Nick Tauber

[Verse 1]
I never needed love before
Until I met you, girl
A girl like you I have never seen
You came into my life like a whirlwind, girl
You let me know what loving really means, yeah

[Chorus]
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you

[Verse 2]
My friends all tell me about you, girl
But I don't wanna sing along
I know you, yeah, you played hard to please
You came into my life, loud and learned, girl
But there ain't no way you're gonna get me on my knees

[Chorus]
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you

[Chorus]
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you

[Chorus]
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you

[Verse 3]
Too many times before
I walked on this sacred ground
But not this time, just you wait and see
Got you where I want you, girl, no messing around
So I knew I just had to leave

[Chorus]
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you
Lady strange, lady strange, I want you, I need you

[Spoken Outro]
Thank you
Thank you, Reading

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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