Billy's Got a Gun
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“Billy's Got a Gun” | |||||
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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 | |||||
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"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.