Def Leppard

Released: October 25, 2019

Songwriter: Steve Clark Richard Savage Joe Elliott

Producer: Tom Allom

[Verse 1]
Well, in the middle of the night and the early morning light
You can hear them a million miles away
They'll be banging on their drums, banging on your door
Waving their flags, telling you to score

[Chorus]
Watch out for the rock brigade
Oh no, it's the rock brigade
Look out for the rock brigade
Leading you away
Away

[Verse 2]
So when they hit your town you'd better get down
I'm telling no lies to you mister
Because they live for rock 'n' roll, they'll try to steal your soul
Might even try to steal your sister

[Chorus]
Watch out for the rock brigade
Oh no, it's the rock brigade
Look out for the rock brigade
Leading you away
Away
Away

[Verse 3]
So in the middle of the night or the early morning light
If you hear them coming your way
Well, you'd better watch your step, don't step out of line
Because here they come one more time

[Chorus]
Watch out for the rock brigade
Oh no, it's the rock brigade
Look out for the rock brigade
Leading you away
Away
Away

[Outro]
Thank you

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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