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SlangDef Leppard

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Sitting dark getting taken because I said
Something lewd in a low down accent, yeah yeah yeah
Kind of love those eyes
I want to get down honey, ain't your guy

[Pre-Chorus]
I'll rap and ruck and jam it up but count me out
Because all I ever wanna get is slang

[Chorus]
Slang with me, I don't want to get my hands dirty
Slang with me, I just want to get soaking wet
Slang with me, I don't want to get my hands dirty
All I ever want to get is slang

[Verse 2]
What's affecting my condition
What's about to knock you down
Said wrapped and bound and a goddamn
I'd love to get connected but it's out of my hand

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
It's my intention to be your obsession
It's my obsession to be your addiction

[Chorus][x2]

Def Leppard

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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