On this day in Def Leppard history, August 16 1986, Def Leppard took the stage for the Monsters of Rock Festival at Castle Donington. Rick Allen returned to the stage for the first time since the accident with an unforgettable performance. Warlock kicked off the night followed by Bad News, Motörhead, Def Leppard, Scorpions and Ozzy Osbourne.
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With over 25 million copies sold worldwide and counting, Hysteria was a difficult album in the making. With the coming and going of guitarists, and a near-fatal car accident, this now multi-platinum album was three years in production.
Now with the re-release of Hysteria being made available, Express caught up with Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott to talk about this period of time…
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DefLeppard front man Joe Elliott looks back at 30 years of ‘Hysteria’ with Anneka Rice HERE
It is like a Greatest Hits package all on its own: Def Leppard‘s July 1987 Hysteria album, one of the most popular albums ever at an estimated twenty-five million copies, yet as Joe Elliott and Rick Savage remind us, it is a miracle that it ever was finished. You can’t make this stuff up. The epic saga revealed behind “Pour Some Sugar on Me”,”Love Bites”,”Animal”,”Women”,”Armageddon It“, and “Hysteria” on the album’s 30th anniversary. After World War II the worldwide success of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, and a bit later Led Zeppelin all had a profoundly positive effect on the British self-esteem. All of these predecessors of Def Leppard were almost entirely influenced musically by the blues, rhythm and blues, and soul music of African-Americans, yet it is most telling that when the Sheffield England quintet compiled an all-covers tribute album a few years ago made up of their most-loved formative impressions, all but one were by white British musicians….
Read the full band interview and listen to Rick Savage & Joe Elliott discuss the album HERE
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On the 30th anniversary of the release of Def Leppard’s ‘Hysteria’ album, Planet Rock held an intimate Q&A session with Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott at Gibson Studios in London. Joe talks about all things Hysteria, and teases out new news on next year’s tour!
Def Leppard Celebrate Thirty Years Of ‘Hysteria’
Def Leppard are in select company, alongside such acts as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Beatles, as one of the few rock bands to have multiple diamond record certifications, for 10 million albums sold. The British hard rock band scored back to back smashes in the ‘80s with 1983’s Pyromania and 1987’s Hysteria.
Ask frontman Joe Elliott and it is the latter that defined the band’s first decade unquestionably. To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of Hysteria, the band is releasing multiple deluxe editions of the set, including a five-CD box set.
I spoke with Elliott about the new edition of Hysteria, revisiting the album after three decades, why it’s endured as long as it has and why he doesn’t offer advice to other artists after four decades in rock…..
Read the full interview with Joe Elliott on Forbes HERE