Photograph (Def Leppard song)

"Photograph"
"Photograph"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Pyromania
B-side	"Action! Not Words"
Released	January 1983 (UK)
Recorded	1982
Studio	Park Gates (Battle, East Sussex); Battery (London);
Genre	Pop metal; glam metal; hard rock;
Length	4:12; 3:55 (single edit);
Label	Vertigo; Mercury;
Songwriter(s)	Steve Clark; Pete Willis; Rick Savage; Joe Elliott; Robert John "Mutt" Lange;
Producer(s)	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
UK cover
Music video
	"Photograph" on YouTube

"Photograph" is a song by the English rock band Def Leppard and produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. It is the lead single from the band's third studio album, Pyromania (1983). Their lead vocalist Joe Elliott has described the song as generally about "something you can't ever get your hands on".^[2] When released as a single it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, where it stayed for six weeks, and 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 featured in the DLC release of Rock Band 3, in 2011.

^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 212. ISBN 9780862415419.
^ "Joe Elliott: We Didn't Start the Fire". Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 170.
^ 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.

[1] Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 212. ISBN 9780862415419.

[Ultimate_Albums_Pyromania-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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