Def Leppard

Popular Glam Rockers

Of all the hard rock and heavy metal bands that found their audience in the 70s and 80s, Def Leppard is perhaps the most mainstream. The band’s hits are often called album rock, a sub-genre of hard rock. DL is often lumped in with 80s ‘hair bands’ or glam rockers. The UK band followed the British Invasion of the late 60s and 70s. Already bands like the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath had laid the foundation for British hard rock and early heavy metal. At the height of Def Leppard’s popularity band members included: Rick Savage, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen, Steve Clark, and Phil Collen.

The BBC was one of the first radio vehicles by which Def Leppard earned its strong following in the UK. The band’s early style stayed outside the lines of punk and veered more toward heavy metal, but was more accessible than traditional, hard line metal. Their first single “Getcha Rocks Off” pushed Def Leppard’s popularity to new heights in the UK. The band’s first album released in 1980 was On Through the Night. It won more American fans than British and when the band focused more heavily on its American fan base, UK fans rebelled.

Superstardom

Their follow-up album High ‘n’ Dry produced the hit single “Bringin’ On the Heartache.” But it wasn’t until the release of their subsequent two albums that the band really garnered a strong following and won their way to superstardom in the pop-metal world. Pyromania was released in 1983 producing hits “Photograph,” “Foolin’,” and “Rock of Ages.” Hysteria did not come along for another four long years, but brought with it a renewed vigor to the band’s flagging image. Hysteria produced the smash hits “Love Bites” and “Pour Some Sugar On Me.” Def Leppard’s most recent addition to its long career has been their 2006 Def Leppard/Journey Tour.

On Through the Night (1980):

1. Rock Brigade
2. Hello America
3. Sorrow Is a Woman
4. It Could Be You
5. Satellite
6. When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
7. Wasted
8. Rocks Off
9. It Don’t Matter
10. Answer to the Master
11. Overture

High ‘N’ Dry (1981):

1. Let It Go
2. Another Hit and Run
3. High ‘N’ Dry (Saturday Night)
4. Bringin’ On the Heartbreak
5. Switch 625
6. You Got Me Runnin’
7. Lady Strange
8. On Through the Night
9. Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)
10. No No No

Pyromania (1983):

1. Rock Rock (Till You Drop)
2. Photograph
3. Stagefright
4. Too Late for Love
5. Die Hard the Hunter
6. Foolin’
7. Rock of Ages
8. Comin’ Under Fire
9. Action! Not Words
10. Billy’s Got a Gun

Hysteria (1987):

1. Women
2. Rocket
3. Animal
4. Love Bites
5. Pour Some Sugar On Me
6. Armegeddon It
7. Gods of War
8. Don’t Shoot Shotgun
9. Run Riot
10. Hysteria
11. Excitable
12. Love and Affection

Adrenalize (1992):

1. Let’s Get Rocked
2. Heaven Is
3. Make Love Like a Man
4. Tonight
5. White Lightning
6. Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)
7. Personal Property
8. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
9. I Wanna Touch U
10. Tear It Down

Retro-Active (1993):

Desert Song

Fractured Love

Action

Two Steps Behind (acoustic)

She’s Too Tough

Miss You In a Heartbeat

Only After Dark

Ride Into the Sun

From the Inside

Ring of Fire

I Wanna Be Your Hero

Miss You In a Heartbeat (electric version)

Two Steps Behind (electric version)

Miss You In a Heartbeat (piano version)

Vault: Def Leppard’s Greatest Hits (1995):

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Photograph
3. Love Bites
4. Let’s Get Rocked
5. Two Steps Behind
6. Animal
7. Foolin’
8. Rocket
9. When Love and Hate Collide
10. Armageddon It
11. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
12. Rock of Ages
13. Hysteria
14. Miss You In a Heartbeat
15. Bringin’ On the Heartbreak

Slang (1996):

1. Truth?
2. Turn To Dust
3. Slang
4. All I Want is Everything
5. Work It Out
6. Breathe A Sigh
7. Deliver Me
8. Gift of Flesh
9. Blood Runs Cold
10. Where Does Love Go When It Dies
11. Pearl of Euphoria

Euphoria (1999):

1. Demolition Man
2. Promises
3. Back In Your Face
4. Goodbye
5. All Night
6. Paper Sun
7. It’s Only Love
8. 21st Century Sh La La La Girl
9. To Be Alive
10. Disintegrate
11. Guilty
12. Day After Day
13. Kings of Oblivion

X (2002):

1. Now
2. Unbelievable
3. You’re So Beautiful
4. Everyday
5. Long Long Way To Go
6. Four Letter Word
7. Torn To Shreds
8. Love Don’t Lie
9. Gravity
10. Cry
11. Girl Like You
12. Let Me Be The One
13. Scar

Best of Def Leppard (2004):

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Photograph
3. Love Bites
4. Let’s Get Rocked
5. Two Steps Behind
6. Animal
7. Heaven Is
8. Rocket
9. When Love and Hate Collide
10. Action
11. Long Long Way To Go
12. Make Love Like a Man
13. Armageddon It
14. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
15. Rock of Ages
16. Hysteria
17. Bringin’ On the Heartbreak

Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection (2005):
Disc 1:

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Photograph
3. Love Bites
4. Let’s Get Rocked
5. Two Steps Behind (acoustic)
6. Animal
7. Heaven Is
8. Foolin’
9. Rocket
10. When Love and Hate Collide
11. Armageddon It
12. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
13. Rock of Ages
14. Hysteria
15. Miss You In a Heartbeat
16. Bringin’ On the Heartbreak
17. Switch 625

Disc 2:

1. Rock Rock (Till You Drop)
2. Let It Go
3. High ‘N’ Dry (Saturday Night)
4. Too Late for Love
5. No Matter What
6. Promises
7. Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)
8. Women
9. Another Hit and Run
10. Slang
11. Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)
12. Rock Brigade
13. Now
14. Paper Sun
15. Work it Out
16. Die Hard the Hunter
17. Wasted
18. Billy’s Got a Gun

Yeah! (2006):

1. 20th Century Boy
2. Rock On
3. Hanging On the Telephone
4. Waterloo Sunset
5. Hell Raiser
6. 10538 Overture
7. Street Life
8. Drive-In Saturday
9. Little Bit of Love
10. The Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
11. No Matter What
12. He’s Gonna Step On You Again
13. Don’t Believe a Word
14. Stay With Me