"Breathe a Sigh" is a 1996 song by English
hard rock
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band
Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, ...
from their album ''
Slang
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''. It peaked at #43 on the
U.K. Singles Chart. The single was not accompanied with a music video.
Background
In reference to the song, lead singer
Joe Elliott
Joseph Thomas Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the ...
said in the album's commentary that ''Breathe a Sigh'' is "a massive challenge for
imto sing" and was "tried a lot of different ways
n the studio
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History
...
but none of them ever seemed to do it any justice", so Def Leppard "stripped it right back"
The song has not been played live since the
Slang World Tour
The Slang World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by English hard rock band Def Leppard in support of their album ''Slang'', which was released in May 1996. Although ''Slang'' was the first Def Leppard album to feature new material with guita ...
in 1997.
Track listing
CD: Bludgeon Riffola - Mercury / LEPCX18( UK) / 578 841-2
# "Breathe a Sigh"
# "Another Hit & Run" (live)
# "
All I Want Is Everything" (live)
# "
Work It Out" (live)
CD: Bludgeon Riffola - Mercury / LEPCD18 (UK) / 578 839-2
# "Breathe a Sigh"
# "
Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
''Pyromania'' is the third studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 20 January 1983 through Vertigo Records in UK and Europe and through Mercury Records in the US. The first album to feature guitarist Phil Collen who replaced f ...
" (live)
# "Deliver Me" (Live)
# "
Slang
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of pa ...
" (live)
Charts
References
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Def Leppard songs
1996 singles
1996 songs
Songs written by Phil Collen