"Death Defying" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus.

[1] and released in February 1986 as the third single from the group's second studio album, Mars Needs Guitars!.

Faulkner has said the song was written to address the HIV/AIDS crisis that was robbing him of friends in the mid-1980s.

[2] In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "One of my favourite songs I've written...

I have vivid memories of shooting the video in Kakadu National Park after having awoken to see the news footage of the Challenger Space Shuttle exploding during take-off.