Brazilian Song Lyrics In English

Like a team, Def Leppard perseveres

After winning with 1983's "Pyromania" album, Def Leppard spent an exhausting four years trying to repeat that success with a series of false starts, compounded by drummer Rick Allen losing his left arm in an auto accident at the end of 1984.

The resulting "Hysteria" was an even greater victory. But relentless touring, followed by the death of guitarist Steve Clark in 1991, led to another four years before bouncing back with the 3 million selling "Adrenalize." By then the sound of popular music had changed, leaving Def Leppard virtually ignored throughout the '90s before rebounding as a popular summer tour draw throughout the past decade.

Their perseverance is not much different from a sports team that keeps fighting to win a playoff. "Undefeated," the first single and one of three new studio tracks off their new live album, "Mirror Ball" ( iTunes | Amazon ), captures that determination complete with the floorboard-stomping rhythm of a classic sporting event anthem.

Def Leppard made sports crawl headlines two years ago, when singer Joe Elliott unknowingly upended the Stanley Cup during an NHL opening night concert. Elliott, who actually received death threats as a result of the incident, says he doesn't know if he's been forgiven by mocking bloggers and angry fans. But the traditions of American teams are mostly unfamiliar to him, a Sheffield native single-mindedly obsessed with English soccer for most of his life, he says.

Elliott, 51, spoke with The Life the day before Def Leppard began their summer tour in Palm Beach, Fla. He dissected the stadium appeal of "Undefeated," and the direct connection of its lyrics to sports, in the process revealing that the similarity between a team and a band runs deeper than just sports analogies.

The Life: In sports, "undefeated" is a quantifiable term. But what makes a band undefeated?

Elliott: I think, in truth, there is no such thing because with a band you don't lose; you get knocked down. But as Chumbawamba would have said, you get back up again. It's more of a metaphor for "knock me down, I'll get back up." It's that "us against the world" kind of thing.

I think a band that remains together is undefeated, even though they've taken a few losses along the way. It's a case of, they've lost the battle, but they've not lost the war. If we're talking about a band in general terms, I'd say a band like ourselves, it's 20 years [with] this lineup and still going strong and we've redefined ourselves. We keep coming out, and we keep fighting to remain in that position that we've achieved. I think that's about as close as you can get to being undefeated.

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Truly is a beautiful song. When Tom Jobim wrote it in 1972 he was inspired by the most rainy period of the year in Rio with its sudden storms and floods. Jobim doesn’t tell a story. His song rather is a compilation of impressions of the autumn season in Brazil. He also wrote English lyrics for the song. In contrast to the Brazilian version, this one treats the spring season in the northern hemisphere. Therefore, it doesn’t give such a massive impression of darkness and roughness.

Anyway, both versions make fantastic poems and in combination with Jobim’s lovely music they truly shine! And that’s why there have been many, many musicians that recorded their version of the song. One of my favourites is a Brazilian version by Ellis Regina. I found a nice video of her performing it. What I like most about her interpretation is her slightly rougher voice. She doesn’t have this João Gilberto type of a soft and whispery voice, which suits the song very well. There is no other Brazilian song I like more than this one! It is such a fantastic tune!

Comparison between the Brazilian and Englisch version in Brazzil Magazine

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