Def Leppard

Released: August 3, 1987

Songwriter: Richard Savage Phil Collen Robert John Lange Steve Clark Joe Elliott

Producer: Robert John Lange

[Verse 1]
You got the fire, baby
I got the heat, can you handle it?
I got the time, baby
You got the need, oh surrender it

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a passion crime
With a danger sign
Oh, can you handle it?
You're just another girl
I'm just another man
It's just another night

Don't give me love and affection
Or what you think it should be
Don't give me love, the wrong reason, yeah
It won't matter to me

[Verse 2]
I got the heart, baby
You got the beat, take a chance on me
We got the night baby
We got the dream, oh imagine it

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a passion crime
With a danger sign
Oh, can you handle it?
You're just another girl
I'm just another man
It's just another night
Don't give me love and affection
Or what you think it should be
Don't give me love
The wrong reason, yeah
It won't matter to me

[Verse 3]
I don't need your understanding
Oh babe, can't you understand me?
Come on, try it and see

[Chorus]
Oh, it's a passion play in a different way
Oh can you handle it? Yeah
You're just another girl
I'm just another man
It's just another night
Don't give me love and affection
Or what you think it should be
Don't give me love
The wrong reason, yeah
It won't matter to me

[Outro]
I don't need your understanding
Oh babe, can't you understand me?
I don't need it
(I don't need) don't need your heart
(I don't need) no understanding
(I don't need) no affection
Don't need your love
Don't give me love and affection
Don't give me love
Give me what you got
I don't need it
I don't need it
I don't need your understanding

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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