Photograph (Def Leppard song)
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| Single by Def Leppard | ||||||||
| from the album Pyromania | ||||||||
| Released | 3 February 1983 | |||||||
| Format | 7-inch single | |||||||
| Recorded | 1982 at Park Gates Studios in Battle, East Sussex, England, and Battery Studios in London, England | |||||||
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| Length | 4:12 3:55 (7") |
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| Label | Mercury | |||||||
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| Producer(s) | Robert John "Mutt" Lange | |||||||
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"Photograph" is a song performed by English hard 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". 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. In 2006 the song was used in promotional adverts for the DVD release of Blades of Glory. In 2009 it was named the 13th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. It was also listed as the No. 17 greatest song of the past 25 years by VH1.
The 1993 live recording of the song in Sheffield, England appeared in the music video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as part of a Def Leppard downloadable track pack, as did the 1993 live recording of "Rock of Ages". The song was also included in the track listing of the rhythm music video game Battle of the Bands. In 2008 they performed the song with country pop singer Taylor Swift on CMT Crossroads.
The studio recording of the song appears in the video game Grand Theft Auto V on the Los Santos Rock Radio station.
There are two slightly different versions of the music video. The uncensored version shows a knife scene at the beginning, and on the censored version of the video, it is almost the same except the knife scene is replaced with a stationary black cat among other minor bits removed. There are several appearances of a look alike impersonating Marilyn Monroe in the video, as the song is actually about the star and lead singer Joe Elliott's declaration that he does not just "want [her] photograph" but that is all he has of her, and he must admire her from afar.
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