We got fantastic bounce-back from people watching it on MTV and then asking the radio stations to play it. "Once people started getting cable all over the States, this fledgling MTV thing took off. "It went through the roof because of MTV," Elliott said to Songfacts. The #1 song in America that week: David Bowie's "Let's Dance." Going on to reach #1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart, the breakthrough single would somehow stall before hitting the Top 10 of the Hot 100. The song was a major hit at radio and MTV, where it was thrown into heavy rotation.
We were always aiming to do something like that, but we could never really pull it together until 'Photograph.' I remember the first time I heard the riff through the studio wall: me and a couple of the crew went (Elliott pulls an amazed face) and when that happens collectively, you know somebody’s hit on something.” “ Rick Savage loved bands like Queen and T Rex I loved T Rex and Bowie and Sweet and Slade. “We always had this inner demon of pop wanting to come out,” Elliott told The Guardian in 2018. The song has been performed at every Def Leppard concert since its release. "Photograph" would be the album's first single, released on February 3, 1983. The album was released on January 20, 1983. The single "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" had a tremendous impact in America thanks to MTV, and the group was ready to take things to an even higher level with the follow-up full-length, Pyromania. RELATED: The Day Def Leppard's Rick Allen Lost His Armĭef Leppard had already made inroads with the band's previous release, High 'n' Dry, also produced by Lange. All I've got is a photograph, but it's not enough." The song was about somebody that's out of the picture. "I don't want to break anybody's heart here, but Marilyn Monroe was just another average actress to me. Over the years it's become exaggerated to Biblical proportions that 'Photograph' was written about Marilyn Monroe, because she was in the video," the singer added. "It's a photograph of something you can't ever get your hands on, somebody that's not here anymore. "One day Mutt had the line 'All I've got is a photograph.' I said, 'That's a Ringo Starr song.' He went, 'Nobody will ever notice,'" Elliott, ever the rock historian, recalled to VH1. The band's singer, Joe Elliott, broke it down back in 2012: Back in the early 1908s, Def Leppard was hard at work in the recording studio when the band's producer, Robert "Mutt" Lange, had an idea.
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