Studio Album · No. 10
Def Leppard Songwriting Credits by Def Leppard
Produced by Def Leppard, Ronan McHugh · Engineered by Ronan McHugh
Holds writing credit on 14 of 14 tracks
Authorship Breakdown 14 / 14 documented
Scored across the 14 tracks with documented writers, by whether Def Leppard carries a lyricist or composer credit.
Share of the 14 tracks where a band member is credited, by role.
By the Numbers
Def Leppard returns the band's writing fully in-house after the outside-writer era of X. The credits are pairs and small groups of members rather than the dense five-name blocks of the 1980s, with Joe Elliott, Phil Collen and Rick Savage most frequent. No outside writers appear, making it one of the most self-contained albums of their later career.
Def Leppard is the tenth studio album by the band, released in October 2015 and their first self-titled record. Made over an unhurried two-year span, it is a deliberate survey of everything the band does, ranging from heavy rockers to ballads and a glam-leaning closer. The writing stayed in-house, mostly pairs and small groups of members, with Joe Elliott, Phil Collen and Rick Savage the most frequent names and Rick Allen and Vivian Campbell also contributing. Self-produced with engineer Ronan McHugh, the album was praised as one of their strongest latter-day efforts and reached the top of the US Rock chart, confirming the classic five-piece lineup was still a creative force.