Hysteria 30 mini-documentary coming soon!
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Hysteria 30 Teaser – Phil Collen
“I wouldn’t have changed a thing” #Hysteria30
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One-of-a-Kind Gibson Les Paul Inspired by Vivian Campbell
This year, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, VH1 Save The Music partnered with the Gibson Foundation to recruit 20 musicians and 20 visual artists to create 20 custom guitars that are as much art pieces as they are musical instruments.
Each Les Paul will be auctioned through Julien’s Auctions in October, with all proceeds benefiting VH1 Save The Music in its mission to expand public access to music education for children in America’s public schools.
Participants include Joe Perry, Rick Nielsen, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr. and longtime Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell.
“As a child, I searched to communicate with those around me and to find my voice,” says Campbell, who was introduced to the custom ax before his recent show in Chicago. “Music gave me that voice. I believe music is an expression of our souls and the universal language that we all speak.”
Read more & watch the video on Guitar World HERE
Hysteria 30 Teaser – Joe Elliott
Phil Collen Interview on WRIF
Check out Phil’s new interview with Steve Black on WRIF about Joe’s personal archives, his signature guitars, and traveling the world with Def Leppard.
Listen HERE
PTSD Awareness w/ Rick Allen & Wounded Warriors
Please help support Rick Allen & the Wounded Warrior Project as they aim to raise awareness for PTSD.
“Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) can affect anyone. I have incredible respect for the wounded warriors out there who are suffering from this, but know that its reach stretches to many others also. For me personally, I now know that I waited much longer than I should have to finally ask for help and begin recovery. I hope if you are suffering, you will find the courage to also reach out and ask for help. You can find hope. You can find that courage. You can get through anything.” – Rick Allen
Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 & Press 1 (or text 838255)
Veterans Crisis Chat: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/ChatTermsOfService.aspx…
Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Phil Collen Talks Hysteria 30, New Tesla Album and more
New audio interview with Phil Collen and Tesla drummer Troy Luccketta talking the current summer tour, Tesla‘s new album, legacy as well as Leppard’s Hysteria reissue, amongst other items.
Listen now on Music Mania Podcast
HYSTERIA 30th Anniversary Editions – Available 4 August
Def Leppard celebrate the 30th anniversary of their seminal album HYSTERIA
one of the best-selling and most influential releases in music history, with the release of Hysteria (Remastered 2017). Set to debut on August 4, the remastered anniversary edition will be released in various formats via Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe—Super Deluxe Edition, Deluxe Version, 1 CD Vanilla Version, 2-LP Black Vinyl Version, & limited edition 2-LP Colored Vinyl Version. The reissue boasts B-sides and live tracks, plus the audio for “In The Round In Your Face (Live)” on CD for the first time.
Check out all versions and pre-order HERE
Frontman Joe Elliott says “It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since the release of Hysteria…..In some respects it really does seem like only yesterday. So, to mark this milestone, we wanted to do something very special for our fans and give them the definitive version of the album, one that incorporates all of the memories and milestones that we caught on tape and some of the madness that we got up to on the road. We hope it means as much to you as it does to us.”
Added Phil Collen, “I look back at the whole Hysteria experience with excitement along with fond and tragic memories. It was our commercial zenith thanks to Mutt Lange’s insistence that we create an artistic hybrid between hard rock and pop top 40 music using every genre available as an inspiration. It was a rock album that would garner seven hit singles. Mission accomplished.”
Among the new versions, the Super Deluxe Edition boasts 5-CD/2-DVDs including four books—Story Of; a Ross Halfin photo book; Discography; Hysteria Tour Program and Tour Poster. The Deluxe Version features 3 CDs, the Vanilla Version is 1-CD, and the Vinyl Version is 2 Black LPs. In addition, there will be a limited-edition, 2-LP Colored Vinyl available via D2C channels for the first time.
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Rolling Stone Exclusive: Hysteria 30th Anniversary Edition
Def Leppard will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their best-selling LP, 1987’s Hysteria, with a remastered box set out August 4th via Universal.
The reissue will be available in multiple formats: the 1-CD “Vanilla” version, a 3-CD Deluxe version, a 2-LP set on black vinyl, a 2-LP “Direct to Consumer” version on limited-edition colored vinyl and a massive, 5-CD/2-DVD Super Deluxe Edition.
Read the full feature on Rolling Stone HERE
Def Leppard in Sheffield 1993
24 years ago today, Def Leppard played at the legendary Don Valley Stadium in their hometown of Sheffield, England.
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