English rock band formed in Sheffield in the late 1970s, best known for 1980s stadium-ready albums such as Pyromania and Hysteria. Famous for multilayered vocal harmonies, big choruses and polished production. Core members include Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen and Phil Collen; guitarist Steve Clark died in 1991. The band continued after Rick Allen lost an arm in a 1984 car accident.

Pyromania and Hysteria were major commercial and critical successes in the 1980s; Mutt Lange produced key albums (notably Pyromania and Hysteria). The band is noted for its resilience after major personal tragedies.

DeBaser reviews celebrate Def Leppard as a quintessential 1980s hard-rock / pop-metal band, highlighting Pyromania and Hysteria as peak achievements. Reviewers emphasize the band's huge choruses, stadium-ready arrangements and studio polish (notably Mutt Lange's production). The group's resilience after Rick Allen's 1984 accident and Steve Clark's 1991 death is repeatedly noted. Later albums receive mixed reactions but the classic era remains highly praised.

For:Fans of 1980s hard rock, pop-metal and arena-ready melodic rock; readers interested in album-by-album commentary and band history.

 What?... I don't understand... I mean... Are we aware??? On DeBaser, there are even 49 (FORTY-NINE, I say) reviews about Iron Maiden, 25,138 on Dream Theater, and 78 million billion on Pink Floyd (and most likely some cheeky devil is making one even right now), but only 2 (TWO, I say) on the legendary Def Leppard?!? Are we kidding???

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 Satisfying though by no means indispensable this work… pure '80s Def Leppard rehashed. But there's a lot of honesty and presentability, offered at the maximum of their current strength, with craftsmanship, energy, desire, experience. Excellent production, too! Top-notch guitars and drums, without breaking balls with long solos or mindless double bass drums, as always.

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 The album was released in 1987 and marked a kind of turning point in terms of arrangements, feeling and, why not, approach to the hard rock that had been played by the British band until then.

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