Def Leppard

Songwriter: Benny Gallagher Graham Lyle

Producer: Def Leppard

Oooh I love you, baby
I love you night and day
When I leave you, baby, don't cry the night away
When I die, don't you write no words upon my tomb
I don't believe I want to leave
No epitaph of doom

Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
I wanna leave some happy woman living on
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
Don't want nobody to mourn
Beside my grave, yeah

Old Mama Linda
She's out to get my hide
She's got a shotgun and her daughter by her side
Hey there, ladies
John son's free
Who's got the love, who's got enough
To keep a man like me

Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
I wanna leave some happy woman living on
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
Don't want nobody to mourn
Beside my grave, yeah

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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