Let It Go (Def Leppard song)

"Let It Go"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album High 'n' Dry
B-side"Switch 625"
Released14 August 1981 (UK)[1]
RecordedMarch–June 1981
StudioBattery Studios (London)
GenreHard rock, heavy metal
Length4:43
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Rock Brigade"
(1980)
"Let It Go"
(1981)
"Bringin' On the Heartbreak"
(1981)

"Let it Go" is a 1981 song by English rock band Def Leppard from their multi-platinum album High 'n' Dry. It was one of two singles from the album, and reached number 34 on the US Mainstream Rock charts. It was originally titled "When the Rain Falls" with different lyrics as played at New Theatre in Oxford in 1980.

The 7" single runs about 30 seconds shorter than the album version; no lyrics are removed, but the opening guitar intro and the other guitar solos are shortened slightly.

Record World commented on the "twin-guitar barrage, Joe Elliott's go-for-broke vocal and the sensory overload of Mutt Lange's production."[2]

  1. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Def Leppard - Let It Go". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. 19 September 1981. p. 54. Retrieved 1 March 2023.