Def Leppard

Released: July 30, 2002

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

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Boy meets girl in prime of life
Blinded by big city lights
I'm on fire and you're the flame
You inspire the road I take
You take me to a better place
You're the sun and I'm the rain
You're all that I need
To make me believe
I'm over the edge
But I'm not afraid
Because I know it's true

[Chorus]
With a girl like you, like you
To be by my side, like you
With a girl like you, like you, like you
Love me for the inside, ahh, like you
With a girl like you, like you
I set the scene to follow, like you
With a girl like you, like you, like you
Love for all tomorrow, ohh, like you
With a girl like you

[Verse 2]
You were raised to be so good
I grew up misunderstood
We were distant worlds apart
Feels so right, it's meant to be
Shooting stars and chemistry
They unite a beating heart
You're pulling me up
I can't get enough
Coming off strong
But I'm not that tough
Well I know it's true

[Chorus][x2]

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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