charts in 1992, and contained several hits, including "Let's Get Rocked" and "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Their next studio album, Adrenalize (the first following the death of guitarist Steve Clark), reached number one in the UK and U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one "Love Bites", alongside "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Hysteria", "Armageddon It", "Animal", "Rocket", and "Women". The album spawned seven hit singles, including the U.S. and has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide. As of 2009, it has reached beyond the success of Pyromania, having been certified 12× platinum for sales of over 12 million in the U.S. In 2003, the album ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.ĭef Leppard's fourth album Hysteria, released in 1987, topped the UK and U.S. In the U.S., Pyromania was certified diamond (10× platinum). The band's next studio album, Pyromania in January 1983, with "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages" as the lead singles, turned Def Leppard into a household name. Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who helped them begin to define their style, produced their 1981 album, High 'n' Dry, and the album's standout track "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982.
The band's strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. This is the band's longest lasting line-up. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals). Def Leppard is an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.
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