In January, the recordings of the fourth album are finished. The album goes on to sell 16 million copies including 12 million in the US alone.
At last the band are stars in their home country. During their U. Recordings of album 5 proceed at Wisseloord Studios and Studio in Amsterdam Holland , before the band relocate to Dublin. On January 8, guitarist Steve Clark dies after mixing alcohol with painkillers prescribed to him after he broke three ribs earlier that year. Def Leppard continue recording their album as a four piece. The band embark on a rare set of European club dates to work on their live show.
The album enters the U. The band, still on tour to support their latest album, cannot make time to record a new song. On June 6, almost 15 years after their first gig, they are the first-ever band to play the newly opened Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield: a triumphant return to their home town to a sell out crowd of 40, A string section recorded by Michael Kamen is added and the song is mixed, released, and racing up the charts within 6 weeks.
This inspires the band to remix the rest of their rarities and B-sides, in an attempt to put out all the remaining songs from the Steve Clark era and begin a new phase in the history of Def Leppard. The band take a six month break, to write and work on new songs on their own, before entering a studio to begin work on their seventh album. Def Leppard head to a house overlooking Marbella, Spain, to record their next album.
VAULT goes on to sell 4 million copies. On October 23, Def Leppard go for the big one and play 3 continents in one day -a feat for which they receive a mention in the Guinness Book Of Records. Starting at midnight in a cave in Tangiers, Morocco, they play an acoustic set. They then fly to London, England to play at midday. Finally, they end up in Vancouver, Canada for yet another show at 9. During the following months, the band toured Southeast Asia and the U.
In December, the band toured South Africa for the very first time, culminating in a sell-out show to 47, exuberant fans at the Johannesburg Stadium.
In April, the band get together in Dublin to start writing and recording their ninth album. Only 61 albums and 45 artists have achieved this level of success. Even more astoundingly, only eight of them were British artists. The date tour comes to an end on September 30 in West Springfield, Massachusetts. In July, VH1 U. The album X as in the Roman numeral for 10 , is released in July. Before the X tour officially starts, the band plays a number of shows in the UK, including one in Leeds, attended by Queen Elizabeth.
For the most part of , the band is touring around the world. After shows, the X tour comes to an end in Moscow. In June, a co-headline tour with Bryan Adams kicks off in the U. In order to avoid the risk of cabin fever, the band goes out on tour in North America with Styx and Foreigner in tow, the first time the band goes on the road for a full tour without an album to support.
A world tour starts in April, taking the band to North America, India, and various festivals in Europe. For the first time in 5 years, the UK sees the band do a proper tour, co-headlining with Whitesnake. The first is accompanied by a never-before-released live show from Los Angeles , where the latter contains a number of tracks that were previously released as B-sides and extra tracks of the various singles from Before a major American tour with Poison and Cheap Trick takes place in the summer, the band first plays a show in Dublin alongside Tesla, Journey and Whitesnake and then moves on to headline the legendary Download Festival at Donington Park, 23 years after they played there at the then called Monsters Of Rock festival, in front of 80, fans.
Whilst in the middle of the summer tour, the band decided to plan on taking a significant break. For the first time in almost 29 years they decided to take a rest after the tour — no recording or touring for a whole year. The year in question was ! His idea was to start the new shows with this uplifting chant.
The band kicked off their summer tour on June 7th with two dates in Ireland and headlined the U. They played two dates in Osaka and Tokyo before heading back to the U. These early weeks of June finds the band also in New York City participating in various press and tv appearances.
With the end of the year fast approaching on 18 December, D. This special studio recorded medley is 7. On 10 March through 17 March D. The World tour then kicked off in Canada on April 15th and then in Europe on May 17th playing 11 dates. On September 17th, Def Leppard has announced that their long-awaited new studio album will be released on October 30, On August 4, Def Leppard released the remastered Hysteria 30th anniversary editions.
Hysteria reached 3 on the Billboard , and albums Pyromania and Vault earned their highest chart positions ever. While in London Def Leppard also announced and completed press for the release of a forthcoming series of career spanning box sets with volume 1 to be release in June of The beer would be sold nationwide during the tour and at select local venues.
One month into recording, Allen lost his left arm in a New Year's Eve car accident. The arm was reattached, but it had to be amputated once an infection set in. Def Leppard 's future looked cloudy without a drummer, but by the spring of -- just a few months after his accident -- Allen began learning to play a custom-made electronic kit assembled for him by Simmons. The band soon resumed recording, and within a few months, Lange was back on board; having judged all the existing tapes inferior, he ordered the band to begin work all over again.
Recording sessions continued throughout , and that summer, the group returned to the stage for the European Monsters of Rock tour. Def Leppard finally completed their fourth album, now titled Hysteria , early in The record was released that spring to lukewarm reviews, with many critics claiming that the album compromised Leppard 's metal roots for sweet pop flourishes.
Accordingly, Hysteria was slow out of the starting gates -- "Women," the first single, failed to really take hold -- but the release of "Animal" helped the album gather steam. The song became Def Leppard 's first Top 40 hit in the U. During those two years, Def Leppard 's presence was unavoidable -- they were the kings of high school metal, ruling the pop charts and MTV, and teenagers and bands alike replicated their teased hair and ripped jeans, even when the grimy hard rock of Guns N' Roses took hold in Hysteria proved to be the peak of Leppard 's popularity, yet their follow-up remained eagerly awaited in the early '90s, as the band took a break from the road and set to work on a new record.
During the recording process, however, Steve Clark died from an overdose of alcohol and drugs. Clark had historically battled alcohol, and following their Hysteria heyday, his bandmates forced him to take a sabbatical. Although he did enter rehab, Clark 's habits continued, and his abuse was so crippling that Collen began recording the majority of the band's guitar leads. Following Clark 's death, Def Leppard resolved to finish their forthcoming album as a quartet, releasing Adrenalize in the spring of Adrenalize was greeted with mixed reviews, and even though the album debuted at number one and contained several successful singles, including the Top 20 hits "Let's Get Rocked" and "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad," the record was a commercial disappointment in the wake of Pyromania and Hysteria.
After its release, the group added former Whitesnake guitarist Vivian Campbell to the lineup, thus resuming Def Leppard 's two-guitar attack. Slang arrived in the spring of , and while it proved more adventurous than its predecessor, it was greeted with indifference, indicating that Leppard 's heyday had indeed passed, and they were now simply a very popular cult band.
Undaunted, Leppard soldiered on, returning to their patented pop-metal sound for Euphoria , which was released in June of Despite the success of "Promises," the record failed to produce any additional hits, resulting in a return to adult pop balladry on 's X. In , the guys released their ninth studio album, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge , which debuted at number five and was supported by a lucrative summer tour.
Another live album followed two years later: Viva! Hysteria found Def Leppard running through their blockbuster in its entirety on the first disc, and a collection of early, rarely played material on the second. In , the band released Def Leppard, their 11th studio album and first collection of original music since Later that year, a Super Deluxe Edition of Hysteria came out in celebration of the record's 30th anniversary.
Further repackagings continued in with a box set of their '80s albums titled The Collection, Vol. The next year saw the release of The Collection, Vol. Def Leppard continued to tour on a regular basis and played a Las Vegas residency, then in issued a collection of their first two albums plus a live set and BBC sessions titled The Early Years AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
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