10 Amazing Hard Rock Music Videos

10. Photograph - Def Leppard

Back in 1983, hair metal was still growing out of its infancy stage. Even though acts like Motley Crue were showing the cruder side of the Sunset Strip, Def Leppard was the more innocent rock act in the era of big hair. Though any hair metal music video could be considered silly, there's something still incredibly endearing about "Photograph" after all these years.

The song itself isn't necessarily Shakespeare, with Joe Elliot being fixated with a picture he has of this girl, but the way everything is shot makes the situation feel larger than life. This is also one of the first times Elliott sported the Union Jack shorts and shirt, which would become one of the great relics of the classic era of hair metal. Other than that, there's not much else to this video other than a few action shots of the band and (of course) still frames of photographs, but a song like this doesn't really need anything else.

You have to remember this was before MTV really found its feet, but compared to the high-budget experiences from artists like Michael Jackson, this was still a nice slice of classic rock. Hard rock might not have had a voice on MTV just yet, but this sounds and looks like hungry kids aiming to take on the world.