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Joe Elliott on BBC Radio
DefLeppard front man Joe Elliott looks back at 30 years of ‘Hysteria’ with Anneka Rice HERE
JOE ELLIOTT & RICK SAVAGE on “In The Studio”
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
Def Leppard Featured in Forbes
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
‘Hysteria’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know on Rolling Stone
When Def Leppard‘s Hysteria came out 30 years ago, it made itself known as a massive achievement, its wall-to-wall sonics and skyscraping harmonies sounding like a turbo-charged version of the metal-edged pop the band had laid down on their prior LP, 1983’s Pyromania. “Every track sparkles and burns,” Kurt Loder wrote in his Rolling Stone review of the album. But the journey the band took to Hysteria was long and at times calamitous, marked by producer conflicts, lengthy recording sessions, record-company debts and a near-fatal car accident suffered by drummer Rick Allen. In advance of a new deluxe Hysteria reissue, out Friday, here are 10 facts about the album’s genesis and its current place in music history….
READ MORE ON ROLLING STONE HERE
UK – Joe on BBC Breakfast
UK fans can listen to Joe Elliott’s interview with BBC Breakfast this morning HERE!
Watch Joe Elliott’s Live Q&A at Gibson with Planet Rock
Joe Elliott is LIVE celebrating #Hysteria30 at Gibson Studios in London with Planet Rock Radio answering your questions now! Watch the full interview and Q&A below. Continue reading “Watch Joe Elliott’s Live Q&A at Gibson with Planet Rock”
CELEBRATE HYSTERIA’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Oh can you feel it, do you believe it? On this day 30 years ago we released the album HYSTERIA. Celebrate with us on social media with the hashtag #Hysteria30 and check out all of the action below!
Watch the new documentary
Order Hysteria 30th Anniversary Editions out tomorrow
Join the Hysteria Sweepstakes for your chance to win a Super Deluxe Box Set
Tune in later today for a live Facebook Q&A with Joe Elliott at 7:15 GMT / 2:15 EST HERE
New Billboard.com Interview w/ Band & Hysteria Recording Team
Read now the brand new Billboard interview with the band and recording team on what it took to make Hysteria.
Def Leppard’s ‘Hysteria’ Turns 30: An Oral History of the Album’s Painful Path to Victory
By: Melinda Newman
Hysteria, a meticulously crafted rock masterpiece infused with elements of pop, new wave, glam, and even rap, turned into one of the defining albums of the ’80s, certified 12x platinum by the RIAA and named the No. 25 biggest album ever on the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. The album spawned an extraordinary seven hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 — including an impressive six top 20-charting smashes. Among those: the top 10s “Hysteria” (No. 10), “Pour Some Sugar On Me” (No. 2), “Love Bites” (their sole No. 1) and “Armageddon It” (No. 3). In the end, Hysteria spent 78 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart — the most weeks spent in the top 10 for an album by a rock band in the chart’s 61-year history.
However, its success was far from certain when it came out Aug. 3, 1987.
In all new interviews, the remaining band members — guitarist Steve Clark died in 1991 — and others involved in the album’s creation and marketing talk about the long road fraught with doubt, pain, joy, drama, misadventures and, ultimately, tremendous triumph. For the first time since Hysteria’s release, recording engineer Nigel Green discusses the groundbreaking, innovative wizardry devised in the studio long before the existence of Pro Tools……
READ THE FULL BILLBOARD ARTICLE HERE
Brian Johnson of AC/DC Remembers Hysteria
We want to know what the Hysteria album means to you! Join Brian Johnson of AC/DC and share your photos & memories using the hashtag #Hysteria30 on social media! Don’t forget to tag @DefLeppard so we can share our favorites.