Rolling Stone Magazine rated their 100 Pop songs ... and DL's 1983 hit "Photograph" came in at number 96. Check out the stats and interview:

Def Leppard "Photograph "
Album: Pyromania
Release Date: January 1983
Peak Chart Position: No. 12 (seventeen weeks on the chart)
Songwriter: Steve Clark, Mutt Lange, Joe Elliott, Pete Willis, Rick Savage
Producer: Mutt Lange

The eighteen-year-old memory is crystal-clear for Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott: Lazing in the recreation room at Parkgate Studios in Sussex, England, he snapped to attention when he heard "this twin-guitar thing that sounded like Thin Lizzy" leaking from under the door to the studio. "I remember thinking, 'Holy shit! What's that?'" he says.

The first single from Def Leppard's third album, Pyromania, "Photograph" not only garnered heavy rotation on MTV, it made the band a pop-metal titan. Elliott says that the song's lyrics were inspired by the Marilyn Monroe photographs covering the walls of his apartment, and notes that ever since Def Leppard first toured behind Pyromania, the band has never played a "Photograph"-less gig. "When we rehearse it now, I could put a rope around my neck," he says. "The only thing that saves me from the noose is thinking of Roger Daltrey singing 'I hope I die before I get old.' You can't write songs wondering what people are going to think in thirty years time."