They just needed the right single, and the 2nd track taken from the record, вЂњAnimal,вЂќ built the momentum. Had the notoriously fickle record-buying public forgotten about Def Leppard? Nah. It had been a few years since вЂњPhotographвЂќ and вЂњRock of AgesвЂќ scaled the charts with their killer licks and cheesy videos. After the bandвЂ™s far-reaching success with their prior album вЂњPyromania,вЂќ this was not an auspicious beginning for a new album. First single, the anthemic rocker вЂњWomen,вЂќ tanked on the charts. вЂњHysteriaвЂќ was released in August 1987, but initially the commercial response was decidedly lukewarm. They struggled in the studio with various producers, and as the months and years ticked by, fans began to question whether a new Def Leppard record would ever emerge.Д®merge it did.

Drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a New YearвЂ™s Eve car accident, but soldiered forward with a custom drum kit. The bandвЂ™s problems were well-publicized. вЂњHysteriaвЂќ is an album that might not have been. Yeah, they had the girls and the booze and some questionable wardrobe choices (but then, it was the 80s вЂ“ we all had fashion mistakes that weвЂ™d rather didnвЂ™t see the light of day again in the form of photographic evidence.) But they also had killer tunes, big live sounds and one of the biggest and baddest albums of the decade: вЂњHysteria.вЂќ It spawned 7 singles, has sold more than 20 million copies, and became Def LeppardвЂ™s major triumph. band Def Leppard, largely avoided the oversized hair and glam-tart makeup that many of their contemporaries employed.

One of the decadeвЂ™s most successful bands, the U.K. The whiff of hair spray permeating the air, tough guy rockers sporting more eye-liner than their groupies, and pyrotechnics exploding in rhythm to the guitarists leather-clad pelvic thrustsвЂ¦ it was an era that wonвЂ™t soon be forgotten.

Ahhh, nothing is quite like 1980s hard rock and heavy metal.

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