Billy's Got a Gun

Billy's Got a Gun

Infobox Song
Name = Billy's Got a Gun


Artist = Def Leppard
Album = Pyromania
Published =
Released = 20 January 1983
track_no = 10
Recorded = 1982 at Park Gates Studios in Battle, Sussex, England & Battery Studios in London
Genre = Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length = 5:27
Writer = Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Pete Willis, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Label = Vertigo
Producer = Robert John "Mutt" Lange
prev = "Action! Not Words"
prev_no = 9
next =
next_no =
"Billy's Got a Gun" is a song by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their multi-platinum 1983 album "Pyromania". It garnered airplay in the US as the B-side of "Rock of Ages", reaching #33 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

The song has been a live favourite of the band since its composition.Fact|date=March 2008 A live version of "Billy's Got a Gun" was the B-side for their only US #1 single, "Love Bites" and was included in 2006 on the deluxe edition of "Hysteria".

The song contains a distorted drum/synth outro that lasts nearly one minute. When the song was issued on the "Rock of Ages" best-of compilation, this outro was removed.


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