Photograph (Def Leppard song)

"Photograph"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Pyromania
B-side"Action! Not Words"
ReleasedJanuary 1983 (UK)[1]
Recorded1982
Studio
Genre
Length
  • 4:12
  • 3:55 (single edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Bringin' On the Heartbreak"
(1981)
"Photograph"
(1983)
"Rock of Ages"
(1983)
UK cover
Music video
"Photograph" on YouTube

"Photograph" is a song by the British hard rock band Def Leppard that was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The track served as the lead single from the band's third studio album, which was titled Pyromania and came out in 1983. Although it has frequently been described as being a tribute to the entertainer Marilyn Monroe, the group's lead vocalist, Joe Elliott, has described the song as broadly about "something you can't ever get your hands on".[2]

After its release as a single, the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, where it stayed for six weeks. It additionally reached No. 12 on the Pop Singles chart.[3]

In 2008, they performed the song with Taylor Swift on CMT Crossroads. The performance was nominated for both Wide Open Country Video of the Year and CMT Performance of the Year at the 2009 CMT Music Awards.

In 2013, the song was featured in the Grand Theft Auto V video game, on the Los Santos Rock Radio station.[4] It was also released as downloadable content for Rock Band 3 in 2011.

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 212. ISBN 9780862415419.
  2. ^ "Joe Elliott: We Didn't Start the Fire". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 170.
  4. ^ Martin, Matt (18 November 2014). "Here's all 162 new songs in the refreshed GTA 5 soundtrack". VG247. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2021.

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