Billy's Got a Gun

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“Billy's Got a Gun”
Song by Def Leppard
Album Pyromania
Released 20 January 1983
Recorded 1982 at Park Gates Studios in Battle, Sussex, England & Battery Studios in London
Genre Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length 5:27
Label Vertigo
Writer Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Pete Willis, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Pyromania track listing
"Action! Not Words"
(9)
Billy's Got a Gun
(10)


"Billy's Got a Gun" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their multi-platinum 1983 album Pyromania. It garnered airplay in the US as the B-side of "Rock of Ages", reaching #33 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

The song has been a live favourite of the band since its composition.[citation needed] A live version of "Billy's Got a Gun" was the B-side for their only US #1 single, Love Bites and was included in 2006 on the deluxe edition of Hysteria.

The song contains a distorted drum/synth outro that lasts nearly one minute. When the song was issued on the Rock of Ages best-of compilation, this outro was removed.