Def Leppard
Def Leppard
In 1977, Rick Savage, Tony Kenning, and Pete Willis were students at a secondary school in Sheffield, England. They had a band called Atomic Mass. Lead singer Joe Elliott joined later that year, and suggested a new band name. Within 10 years, that name, Def Leppard, became one of the most recognised in English rock music. To date, they have released more than 40 singles.
Def Leppard was a definitive part of the new wave of British heavy metal bands in the late 1970s. Their first three albums had tremendous momentum, each outselling the one before. Then, after the release of Pyromania in 1983, drummer Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident. The band stuck by him through his recovery and retraining.
When Def Leppard came back, they came back hard. Their fourth album, 1987’s Hysteria, was a hard rock masterpiece that took the world by storm. By then the music video had matured as a film style, and Hysteria’s singles and videos had enough pop, sex, colour, and glam to put it over the top. Hysteria was one of the biggest-selling albums of the 1980s.
- Pour Some Sugar on Me
- Rock of Ages
- Love Bites
- Hysteria
- Photograph
- Animal
- Rocket
- Armageddon It
- Foolin’
- When Love and Hate Collide
- Two Steps Behind
- Bringin’ on the Heartbreak
- Women
- Let’s Get Rocked
- Too Late for Love
- Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
- Gods of War
- Love and Affection
- Let It Go
- Little Wing
- Can’t Keep Away from the Flame
- When Saturday Comes
- Rebel Rebel
- He’s Gonna Step on You Again