Def Leppard

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Richard Savage Robert John Lange Steve Clark

Producer: Robert John Lange

Of hopeless night, will you love me

(Mission Control radio talk)

Ahhh... oooh...

White light, strange city, mad music
All around
Midnight, street magic, crazy people
Crazy sound
Ahhh... oooh...

Jack Flash, Rocket Man
Sergeant Pepper and the band
Ziggy, Benny and the Jets
Take a rocket, we just gotta fly
(I can take you through the center of the dark)
We're gonna fly
(On a collision course to crash into my heart)
I will be your
I will be your
Be your

Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket baby, c'mon
I'll be your satellite of love

Oooh-ooh... aah-ahh...
Oooh-ooh.. aah-ahh...

Spotlight, magnetic, raise the rhythm
Raise the love
Guitar, drums
Motor, fly
Ahh-ahh... ooh-ooh...

Jet Black, Johnny B
Gene Jeanie, Killer Queen
Dizzy Lizzy, Major Tom
So come on, we just gotta fly
(I can take you through the center of the dark)
We're gonna fly
(On a collision course to crash into my heart)
I will be your
I will be your
Be your

Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket baby, c'mon
We're gonna fly

(breakdown bridge)
We just gotta fly
(I can take you through the center of the dark)
We're gonna fly
(On a collision course to crash into my heart)
I will be your
I will be your
Be your

Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah (satellite of love)
Guitar, drums, light up

We're gonna fly
(Rocket, yeah) (satellite of love)
We're gonna fly
(Rocket, yeah) Yeah (satellite of love)
Rocket, yeah

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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