“Let It Go” by Def Leppard

"Let It Go" came roaring off High 'n' Dry, Def Leppard's 1981 album, but it had been kicking around since at least 1980, when the band played it at the New Theatre in Oxford under another name, "When the Rain Falls", with different words. By the time Mutt Lange produced it, it was lean and loud: Steve Clark and Pete Willis on electric guitars, Rick Savage on bass, Rick Allen on drums, Joe Elliott out front, and everyone but Elliott stacking up backing vocals. Mike Shipley engineered.

High 'n' Dry yielded just two singles and this was one of them, climbing to 34 on the US Mainstream Rock chart; the seven-inch runs about 30 seconds shorter, trimming the intro and the solos. Record World liked its "twin-guitar barrage" and Elliott's "go-for-broke vocal".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.