Def Leppard

Released: May 23, 2006

Songwriter: Ray Davies

Producer: Def Leppard

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling
Flowing into the night
People so busy, making me dizzy
Taxi light shines so bright

But I don't need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)

Terry meets Julie at Waterloo Station
Every Friday night
But I am so lazy, I don't like to wander
I stay at home at night

But I don't feel afraid
As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise

Every day I look at he world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)

Millions of people swarming like flies
'Round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river
Where they feel safe and sound

And they don't need no friends
As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset
They are in paradise

Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)
Waterloo sunset's fine
(Waterloo sunset's fine)

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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