Def Leppard

Released: July 30, 2002

Songwriter: Joe Elliott Phil Collen Rick Allen Richard Savage Vivian Campbell

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

I need a job
I need it right now
Not just any old job
But I need it right now

It's gotta be a good one
It's gotta last
Longer than the other ones
In the past

I can work hard
And do my thing
Twenty-four seven
Anything

Yeah

Gimme a job
My love is unemployed
Gimme a job
And my heart ain't overjoyed
Gimme a job
I don't mean to be paranoid
So come on over baby
And gimme a job

Oh yeah

I don't care
If the pay's no good
Just gimme some shelter
And throw me some food

I can do the overtime
And I won't strike
Sign on the dotted line
Anything you like

Yеah

Gimme a job
My love is unemployеd
Gimme a job
And my heart ain't overjoyed
Gimme a job
I don't mean to sound paranoid
So come on over baby
And gimme a job

I don't need no money
To make my dream come true
I don't need anything
All I want is you

Ain't that the truth!

Uh!

Gimme a job
My love is unemployed
Gimme a job
And my heart ain't overjoyed
Gimme a job
I don't mean to be paranoid
So come on over baby

Gimme a job
My love is on it's knees
Gimme a job
If you want it, then baby please
Gimme a job
Get me out of this deep, deep freeze
So come on over baby
And gimme a job

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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