Song · Def Leppard
“Billy's Got a Gun” by Def Leppard
From the album Pyromania (1983)
“Billy's Got a Gun” by Def Leppard appears on 7 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2002. It was first released in 1983 on the album Pyromania. Its best result is #530 on the KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #930 hard rock song of all time.
"Billy's Got a Gun" is on Pyromania, Def Leppard's third album, which hit the shops on 20 January 1983, on Vertigo in Europe and Mercury in America, and it catches the band in the middle of a changeover. Pete Willis, the founding guitarist Phil Collen replaced, is one of its writers along with Steve Clark, Joe Elliott, Rick Savage and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and both Willis and Collen are credited on guitar here, alongside Clark.
Lange mixed it too, Mike Shipley engineered, Elliott sings lead over backing vocals credited to "the Leppardettes", Savage plays bass, Rick Allen drums, and one Booker T. Boffin adds keyboards. Pyromania was the record where Leppard traded some of their heavy metal muscle for radio polish, and the gamble paid off on a massive scale.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 747 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 826 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 782 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 807 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 977 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 982 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 530 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
Also listed as: Billy's Got A Gun.
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