Def Leppard

Songwriter: Jeffery “C.J.” Vanston Phil Collen

Producer: Ronan McHugh Def Leppard

I won't run
I won't hide
I'm not alone, cause you're here inside
Like a bird
I can fly
Don't need a reason why

You are my destination
You are my destiny
You are the truth that sets me free

It's all about believin'
'Cause if you believe, it makes it real
It's all about believin'
Cause nobody else, can you tell you how you feel
Believin'

All my pain
All my fear
Disappears when you are here
I break through
To the sky
You are the reason why

'Cause you are my sweet temptation
My perfect chemistry
You are the truth that sets me free

It's all about believin'
'Cause if you believe, it makes it real
It's all about believin'
'Cause nobody else, can tell you how you feel
Every word they sound
Every thought that we found
Was meant to be
Every thought we are done
All the colors were run
Into wild reality
Believin'

It's all about believin'
'Cause if you believe, it makes it real
It's all about believin'
'Cause nobody else, can tell you how you feel
Believin'
'Cause if you believe, it makes it real
It's all about believin'
'Cause nobody else, can tell you how you feel
Belevin'
You gotta just believe in
It's all about believin'

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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