Def Leppard

Released: May 23, 2006

Songwriter: Bruce Campbell

Producer: Def Leppard

You're a voice on the street
You're the faces that I meet
All day my life is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day

It's no use to run and hide
You'll be running running running by my side
All day my life is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day

Like children we have laughed
And played the game you and me
But have you seen me cry?
Once I believe I saw you dying yet you still remain
To me the same mystery
Only closer
Much closer to my heart
And so you see
I couldn't let you
Leave me be
All day my life is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day

All day my life...ahhh...
Is keeping time
Time with your heartbeat
Time with your heartbeat every day

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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