Denim and Leather

"Denim and Leather" is the ninth and last track on the album, 5:25, credited to the five members of Saxon. We found no single release and no chart entry for it. Wikipedia describes it as a tribute to the fans that outlines the metalhead subculture and the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal.

In Metal Hammer's Katrin Riedl's interview at Rockharz, reported by Blabbermouth on December 26, 2025, Byford said the lyrics are about the audience, and that fans were invited to sing on the record by mail, letter and telephone; the drum groove was based on Montrose's "Rock Candy". He said, it's a song about the fans, so let's include the fans, and I still think it is an anthem for metal fans around the world. A search summary of a 2024 AllMusic interview has him saying the phrase came from Alice Cooper, but that page returned an error and we could not verify it.

Setlist.fm lists the song in 1,145 Saxon setlists, among 226 songs in its statistics, and search results show 1981 and 1982 UK tour dates such as the Glasgow Apollo on September 18, 1982 and Hammersmith Odeon on October 9, 1982. We found no covers, samples or video for the title track, and could not tell whether our upload is the studio or a live recording.