Songoftheday 2/1/13 - Rise up gather round rock this place to the ground....

Def Leppard - "Rock Of Ages"
from the album Pyromania (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day is by British pop-metal superstars Def Leppard, who blazed the trail for hard rock to be on pop radio in the 80s with their top-20 single "Photograph" from their mega-hit album Pyromania. For the followup they released "Rock Of Ages", with its memorable Germanic gibberish in the beginning, spoken by producer "Mutt" Lange to count their take down...

"Rock Of Ages" became the band's second #1 rock radio hit, and second to reach the pop top-20 as well. It also made the top-40 in Canada, but even though it was their biggest hit in their home of Britain at the time, it stalled right under the top-40 at #41.

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...and here's the band live in concert with the song..

and since the group's been fighting for the rights of their songs, they recently re-recorded the song for their tour...