Just announced! Due to overwhelming demand we have added a second London show at the SSE Arena, Wembley on 18 December.
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Late 2018 will see the band deliver what many UK and Eire fans have been waiting for… the“HYSTERIA” album performed in full plus other Def Leppard hits across eleven arena dates in December 2018 with special guest CHEAP TRICK!
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On-demand audio streams of Def Leppard’s catalog of songs rose 379 percent in the first day of its wide availability on streaming services on Friday (Jan. 19), according to Nielsen Music.
The rock band, which had been a long-running holdout on major streaming services before 2018 with the majority of its catalog unavailable to the most consumers, earned 596,000 on-demand audio streams for its songs on Jan. 19. Additionally, Def Leppard videos received 482,000 clicks, a boost of 47 percent.
In all, Def Leppard’s music — audio and video combined — was streamed 1.1 million times on on-demand services on Jan. 19, up from 453,000 in Jan. 18, 73 percent of which was via video views. Conversely, 55 percent of the band’s Jan. 19 streams came from on-demand audio services….
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Attention UK & Ireland: pre-sale tickets for the Hysteria Tour go on sale Wednesday, 24 January at 9AM local for Rock Brigade Fan Club Members! Sign up here for access: defleppardrockbrigade.com
Check out this great new interview with Rick Allen & Jim Kerr of Q104.3 New York!
2018 is going to be a big year for Phil Collen. Right now, he’s on the G3 tour with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci – an invitation only awarded to the finest axemen on planet earth, joining an elite list that includes Yngwie Malmsteen, Eric Johnson, Paul Gilbert, Guthrie Govan and more.
But comes year’s end, he’ll be conquering UK arenas with classic rock legends Def Leppard, performing one of the biggest-selling rock albums of all-time – 1987 masterpiece Hysteria – in its entirety. While most of his bandmates would count the Sheffield date as their hometown show, the Hackney-born guitarist has his eyes on the London O2 Arena date – headlining the capital’s biggest indoor venue for the first time in his career…
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Joe Elliott and Neal Schon are LIVE with Eddie Trunk on Sirius XM to answer all your questions about their bands’ upcoming joint tour! Check it out below.
On this day 35 years ago, we released Pyromania! What was your favorite song on the album?
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Check it out! Def Leppard is featured on the homepage of USA Today.
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Exclusive: Def Leppard’s entire catalog to stream beginning Friday
Def Leppard has finally given Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music and Amazon and seven other digital music platforms the OK to Pour Some Sugar on listeners: The British hard rock act’s entire catalog will be available to stream on Friday.
What took them so long?
For one, streaming hadn’t yet been invented when they signed their last record deal, and two, they weren’t hurting for money.
Thanks to non-stop touring and steady sales of their back catalog over the course of the last decade, singer Joe Elliott says, “We were doing OK and we weren’t really missing anything.“
Plus, Elliott, 58, and his bandmates also wanted to wait out “the digital streaming thing” a little and get a better sense of whether the business model was here to stay or a short-term fad. (He notes that Def Leppard were also iTunes holdouts who didn’t put any of their tracks online until their first live album, 2011’s Mirror Ball.)
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Def Leppard Explain Why They Finally Embraced Streaming
“We weren’t going to be victims of the industry,” singer Joe Elliott says
For years, Def Leppard were well situated among the ranks of Garth Brooks and Tool as holdouts on streaming services – artists with large, multiplatinum catalogues that still didn’t feel comfortable with the pros and cons of subscription-based music schemes. The hard rockers had long been at war with their label, Universal, about the topic, even recording self-described “forgeries” of “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rock of Ages” that were self-released so they would earn what they considered a fair wage. “We just sent [the label] a letter saying, ‘No matter what you want, you are going to get “no” as an answer, so don’t ask,'” Elliott said in 2012.
But things have changed. Beginning Friday, fans can stream all of the band’s major releases, going back to their 1979 debut, The Def Leppard E.P., on all major streaming services. “We needed the right deal for the band,” frontman Joe Elliott tells Rolling Stone. “We weren’t going to be victims of the industry. We signed our deal with Mercury many, many decades ago when there was no digital part of the record deal. So when [our contract ended] in 2009, we were free to do whatever we wanted to do. We were so busy touring and not worrying about the back catalogue – because people were still buying CDs – that we weren’t sure about [embracing] streaming.”
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Do you believe it? Def Leppard’s full catalog of Diamond, Platinum & Multi-Platinum iconic albums is available to stream and download for the first time EVER globally!
Tune in TODAY, January 19 at 2:45pm EST for the global listening party with Joe & Phil.
One of the last multi-platinum selling acts to be made available on streaming and download, music fans from all corners of the globe can now enjoy all of Def Leppard’s tracks and albums.
Said Joe Elliott, “It is with a mixture of relief & euphoria that we now see our entire catalog finally getting a digital release. Having embraced every other format with open arms, especially & more recently the reemergence of vinyl, we’re now going to be available to everyone everywhere and honestly, it’s as exciting as the original releases were.”
Added Rick Savage, “Finally the wait is over! Our music is now available on all digital formats. Very excited. Thanks for your patience and continued support.”
Phil Collen also said, “We felt we’d been left out of the digital party but it’s a thrill to us to finally accept the invitation and to be able to say ‘yeah, you can stream us, download us and get us great on all of these digital outlets’.”
In conjunction with the release of their catalog, Def Leppard also announced they will embark on a massive co-headlining tour with JOURNEY. Comprised of stadiums and arena venues around the U.S., the 6-month run is set to kick off in Hartford, CT on May 21st and will wrap in Los Angeles, CA on October 6th.
Tickets go on sale starting Saturday, February 3. Stay tuned for further ticket info.
Late 2018 will see the band deliver what many UK and Eire fans have been waiting for – the “HYSTERIA” album performed in full plus other Def Leppard hits across eleven arena dates in December 2018 with special guest CHEAP TRICK!
Rick “Sav” Savage says, “After many requests from fans in the U.K, I’m delighted that we can bring the whole “Hysteria” album to arenas across Britain and Ireland later this year. From ‘Women’ to ‘Love and Affection’ plus many other faves thrown in for good measure. Oh, and our old pals Cheap Trick will be there also to help with the celebrations!! We can’t wait’.
Tickets for the monumental event will go on sale beginning Friday, 26 January at 9AM local. Rock Brigade Concert Club exclusive pre-sale & VIP Packages on sale January 24.
These will be the first Def Leppard UK and Eire tour dates since the sold-out Arena run in late 2015. The band will return to Sheffield Arena for what is sure to be a monumental homecoming show, in addition to their first ever show at The O2, London.
The seminal 1987 “Hysteria” album is rightly seen as a landmark recording in the history of rock music. It was the album that saw Def Leppard conquer the world with global hits such as “Animal”, “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, “Hysteria”, “Armageddon It”, “Love Bites”, “Woman” and “Rocket”. The band will deliver “Hysteria” in full alongside other songs from their incredible catalogue.
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