DEF LEPPARD and their new single “Rejoice”

Music icons Def Leppard released their new single, “Rejoice.” The song comes shortly before Def Leppard’s return to Las Vegas for their Residency Def Leppard: Live at Caesars Palace, which kicks off on February 3, 2026. “Rejoice” is now available on all streaming platforms via EMI Records. The official lyric video can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/zy2TLLeNgp0?si=DAWdWFXiJIpQmDhs

Lead singer Joe Elliott talks about the song’s creation: “This song’s been an amazing journey from concept to conclusion. I said to Phil [Collen] one day, ‘I’ve got this idea for a lyric where the narrator is at absolute rock bottom and wants to rise up to a higher level. Do you have a musical piece that might match with that? And he said, ‘As it happens, yes I do.’”Guitarist Phil Collen adds: “I had this riff, this idea for a song a while ago actually, so when Joe came to me I created this drum loop based on a tribal sound and it fit perfectly with this other arrangement I had. I sent it to Joe and it was like magic – he sang straight over the top of it. And that’s how the song was formed. Then we gave it to Ronan [McHugh] who’d done a proper drum loop with different sounds. It all started gelling and just sounded like a powerful chant. We love it. It’s hard rock for us. It’s got a bit more of an ‘oomph’ than stuff we’ve been doing for a while. It’s kind of magical.”