Pyromania - Def Leppard

Songs From The Sparkle Lounge - Def Leppard

each individual track very similar to the next, with the shortest tracks both being 3 minutes 3 seconds, and the longest at 4 minutes 17 seconds. As a Def Leppard fan, I m used to their songs not going on for too long, but when they do, I tend to find they get a bit repetetive, therefore the use of short tracks on the album does benefit myself and others to an extent, though variety within an album is often appreciated. I enjoyed their previous album, Yeah! which was a series of 1970s covers by Def Leppard, and I really did like their versions, preferring a majority over the originals. Although SFTSL is their first studio album since 2002, I wasn t overly excited ...

Hysteria - Def Leppard

Wembley arena, Spring 1988, Myself and a small gathering of school mates got together and bought tickets to see Def Leppard live. Dad drove us there, a two hour drive from our homes in south of Surrey in our old VW camper. The journey was spent spraying glitter into our back combed hair and applying far too much frosted pink lipstick. By the time we wobbled out of the van in heels we couldn t walk in, we looked more like the extras in an amateur version of the Rocky Horror Show. We were thrilled to see a mass of tight jeans and blonde perms jumping about on stage with youthful energy and screamed at the tops of our voices to all the numbers we knew from the album ...

X - Def Leppard

I'm a huge Def Leppard fan. A loan of their "Hysteria" album in 1987 changed my musical preferences forever, and I've counted them as my favourite band ever since. Much like with my favourite novelist, Stephen King, I've spent the last few years getting everything I can on the day of release and enjoying it but, often ending up disappointed in some way. This album was different. This album had managed to worry me before it had even been released! The first cause of concern was that Joe Elliott's hair now looks like one of the Gallagher brothers from Oasis, only blonde. So I worried they were going indie. My second worry was that ...