Def Leppard

Released: July 30, 2002

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

Producer: Def Leppard Pete Woodroffe

[Verse 1]
Something in the way you move
Lets me get too close to you
I tremble when I look at your face
And I want all the world to see
Tonight the world belongs to me
Touch me with your animal grace

[Chorus]
Put your hand on my heart
And the feel the need in me
Let me be the one
Lead me into temptation
And show me the right side of wrong
Let me be the one
Take me in from the cold
Give me something to hold
Let me be the one
Let me be the one

[Verse 2]
Burning in the afterglow
Catch the wind and let it go
Washed away like words in the sand
A passion that's so physical, electric and untouchable
Don't want to let it slip through my hands

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Don't let this dream pass by
Just spread your wings and fly
Reach out and touch
Let your heart just bring me in
I'll be your oxygen

[Chorus]

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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