DEF LEPPARD TO BE INDUCTED INTO ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME

It’s official, DEF LEPPARD are 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FANS FOR MAKING US #1 IN THE FAN VOTE AND TO THE VOTING MEMBERS OF THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME COMMITTEE

The band will be inducted into the 2019 Performer Category alongside The Cure, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Radiohead, Roxy Music and The Zombies. Presented by Klipsch Audio, the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® Induction Ceremony will take place on March 29, 2019 in Brooklyn, NY at Barclays Center. Presented by Klipsch Audio, the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® Induction Ceremony will take place on March 29, 2019 in Brooklyn, NY at Barclays Center.

About the induction, Def Leppard said:

Joe Elliott, “First of all, a massive thanks to all our fans & past inductees who voted for us. Congratulations to all our fellow inductees, we stand alongside some amazing artists, past & present. What an absolute honour.”

Phil Collen, “We started 2018 off at the Royal Albert Hall and to now cap it all off with a nod into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is brilliant.”

Rick Savage, “Being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame puts Def Leppard in a class of peers that we’ve always appreciated and admired. We’re looking forward to the ceremony.”

Vivian Campbell, “Coming into Def Leppard after stints with other bands, it was immediately apparent to me that Leppard had ambition far beyond most. As a fan from the early years, I’d heard that ambition in the music, blending genres to craft the unique Leppard sound. After 26 years as the new guy, I can assure you that the work ethic and the collective focus of this band is just as strong to this day.”

Rick Allen, “What an honor for Def Leppard to be included in this year’s induction with so many other talented and deserving artists.”

Def Leppard join a long list of legends to receive this coveted honor, in addition to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the impressive “Class of 2019. With sales eclipsing 100 million albums and a reputation as one of rock’s most enduring and influential bands, this represents yet another massive milestone for the legendary British rock icons.

Following the close of their historic 2018 co-headline stadium and arena run in North America, Def Leppard sold a staggering 1,000,000 tickets and the tour grossed over $100,000,000.00, a massive feat in today’s touring world. The band are currently in the UK performing their iconic album Hysteria to sold out arenas. As always, the group keep pushing forward with their electrifying live shows that have transcended the test of time.

Right now, the band has its sights set on a massive 2019 with major announcements on the horizon.

JOE ELLIOTT – PLANET ROCK RADIO SHOW (SATURDAY 15 DECEMBER)

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This weeks program features songs from BADFINGER, CHEAP TRICK, PAUL MCCARTNEY, ERIC CLAPTION amongst others, as well as some stories from Joe!

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LIVE REVIEW: Def Leppard whip up Hysteria to blow the doors off at the O2 Arena

Def Leppard earns another 5 star London show review on Daily Express

LIVE REVIEW: Def Leppard whip up Hysteria to blow the doors off at the O2 Arena

OVER 100 Million records sold worldwide, and their Pyromania and Hysteria albums certified Diamond status, establishes Def Leppard as one of the all-time great British rock groups who is still rocking all over the world as tonight’s explosive show of red-hot melodic metal attests.

As tough as the Sheffield steel that their home city produced when they originally forged their callow talents together in the vanguard of the NWOBHM, Def Leppard remains world beaters.

Completely selling out their current UK tour which arrived at the London 02 Arena on this un-seasonally mild December evening, it was anything but mild inside this vast arena as fan fervour led to onstage group fireworks.

Playing their sparkling Hysteria album in full, singer Joe Elliot whipped up a frenzy as this evening’s hard-core throng sang along from the get-go to Leppard’s high altar of anthemic hard rock songs.

Read the full review on Daily Express HERE

Def Leppard Earns 10/10 Rating in Classic Rock Magazine

Featured on the cover of Classic Rock Magazine’s 20th Birthday issue, Def Leppard earns a shining 10/10 rating on the Hysteria: The Singles box set and 9/10 rating for The Story So Far: The Best of Def Leppard.

Check out a preview of the issue below and get your copy – on newsstands now.

Order Hysteria: The Singles Box Set: https://defleppard.lnk.to/HysteriaTheSingles

Order The Story So Far – The Best Of Def Leppard here: https://defleppard.lnk.to/TSSF

London’s 5 star show review by The Guardian

Via: The Guardian

Def Leppard review – metal legends revisit a riff-laden classic

5/5stars

O2 Arena, London 


The British hard-rock favourites play their 1987 album Hysteria in full in a show that demonstrates their scintillating craft

wo days before his 61st birthday, Phil Collen stands stripped to the waist, his torso oiled, striking the first notes of Def Leppard’s 1987 album Hysteria on his guitar. In fairness, after several decades in which the gym has taken the place of drink and drugs, he has the kind of body most men his age would consider achievable only by means of radical surgery. What’s more, the song he’s starting – Women – is one so silly that an oiled torso seems only fitting. “And in the garden, lust began,” sings Joe Elliott – who remains fully clothed at all times – “the animal instinct, the wanton man.”

Lyrics were never Def Leppard’s strong suit. But hooks were. Hysteria – played in full tonight – has sold somewhere in the region of 25m copies because it leaves nothing to chance. Rather than write songs and record them, Def Leppard wrote the best sections they could, which they then assembled into songs in the studio with producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange. Live, you realise just how complex the edifice is: the interlocking vocals (with lots of glam-rock chanting), the switches between guitars, the fact that every song just gets bigger: this bit should be the chorus! No, this bit should! No, this is the chorus! It’s irresistible.

 Irresistible … Elliott with guitarist Phil Collen.
Irresistible … Elliott with guitarist Phil Collen. Photograph: Jo Hale/Redferns

It’s a testimony to how powerful Hysteria was that we’re 40 minutes into the show before there’s a song that wouldn’t be intimately familiar to anyone around in the late 80s. Hysteria spawned seven singles, and thoroughly deserves its reputation as hard rock’s Thriller. You realise how sophisticated it was when the band follow it with their second single, Wasted, from 1979. It’s perfectly decent, miles better than most of their New Wave of British Heavy Metal peers, but it would never have opened arena doors for them. It took the set closer, Photograph, to do that. Collen and Vivian Campbell burst into its opening riff – one so indelible it will be playing in a loop on some automated classic rock station long after humanity has died – and you can’t help but thrill. What a great British pop group.

 At Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, on 8 December. Then touring.

JOE ELLIOTT – PLANET ROCK RADIO SHOW (SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER)

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This weeks program features songs from ACE FREHLEY, FLEETWOOD MAC, QUEEN, ALICE COOPER amongst others, as well as some stories from Joe!

Radio show time is Saturdays at 6pm (GMT) / 1pm (EST) and repeated on Tuesday nights @ 9pm (GMT) / 4pm (EST).

For those in the U.K. tune into Joe’s weekly radio show on PlanetRock.com.

For those listening outside the U.K. listen live from this site HERE.  Please not this Surf.com internet site may not work in some countries.  As a quick fix, please download a VPN application and set it to the UK territory.  Then download the Planet Rock app and boom, it works!