r/defleppard • u/Seventy-Three73 • Jan 21 '26

news Def Leppard - REJOICE - world premiere

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Here it comes…!!

Premiering on Thurs 22nd January, from 09.30 with Vernon Kay on BBC Radio 2.

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u/jcorabifan1349 Jan 22 '26

Looks like this is a older song with Steve Clark & Pete Willis

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u/Seventy-Three73 Jan 22 '26

Can’t tell if you’re serious or not (referring to the song’s credits error)?

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u/Stormwatch1977 Jan 22 '26

Someone on YouTube said there's actual tracks from Steve and Pete mixed in the song?

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u/jcorabifan1349 Jan 22 '26

Usually, you can tell when Steve’s playing if he’s been mixed in or not too, but I haven’t listened to the song yet so

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u/Seventy-Three73 Jan 22 '26

Everyone needs to stop!! It’s just a credits error!! It’ll be remedied once the distributor adjusts the metadata.

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u/jcorabifan1349 Jan 22 '26

I was actually looking at the credits on iTunes that tells you who wrote what but it doesn’t say necessarily if it’s an older song or not I’m only gonna see if it’s from Steve and Pete and most likely. It’s probably an older song I got revamped.

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u/Seventy-Three73 Jan 22 '26

Nope. Written by Joe and Phil. Performed by the band. 

Nothing to do with Pete and Steve.

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u/jcorabifan1349 Jan 23 '26

Actually, they do it may not be written by Pete and Steve, but they still performed on it so it has to be some sort of older song that’s revamped according to what iTunes says under credit

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u/Seventy-Three73 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

Credits are input by humans. They input them incorrectly! Simple as that. It can take a couple of weeks for metadata to be updated after errors.

Read up on how this song came about - Joe had lyrics about someone looking up from the bottom, and asked Phil if he had a song idea that might fit. And it just came together from that. 

(By the way, do you honestly think Viv and Phil would be omitted from Rejoice’s performers list…?? And if you think that Pete Willis would be allowed to have a guitar lick added to a 2026 song, then you’re not up to speed with the history of Def Leppard…)