Paper Sun (Def Leppard song)

Paper Sun is a single by British band Def Leppard from their 9th album Euphoria. It charted at #11 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts. It failed to chart elsewhere however. It is included on the second disc of the compilation album Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection.

"Paper Sun"
Single by Def Leppard
from the album Euphoria
Released1999
FormatCD
Recorded1998
GenreHeavy metal
Length5:27
LabelBludgeon Riffola – Mercury
Songwriter(s)Phil Collen, Vivian Campbell, Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Pete Woodruff
Producer(s)Pete Woodruff and Def Leppard
Def Leppard singles chronology
"Promises"
(1999)
"Paper Sun"
(1999)
"Goodbye"
(1999)

Lyrically the song is about the Omagh bombing which occurred on August 15, 1998. After being omitted from tour set lists since the Euphoria World Tour in 2000, the song returned to Def Leppard's set list for their 2015 World Tour with Tesla and Styx.

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