"Photograph" | ||||
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Single by Def Leppard | ||||
from the album Pyromania | ||||
B-side | "Action! Not Words" | |||
Released | January 1983 (UK)[1] | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
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Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||
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"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.