During their '80s heyday, Def Leppard found a territory midway between traditional British hard rock and slickly produced pop ...

Back in the dark ages of music on physical media, albums that were “out of print” were inaccessible and hard to find. Now, with wide swathes of popular music history readily available on major ...

Def Leppard cover artist Andie Airfix knew CDs were about to kill vinyl records. Still, he was determined to go out with a big bang if 1987's Hysteria was going to be the last project he designed ...

As part of the celebration surrounding the 30th anniversary of their blockbuster Hysteria LP, the members of Def Leppard participated in a new "mini-documentary" looking back on the making of the ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Def Leppard and others involved in the creation and marketing of 'Hysteria' talk about the long road fraught with doubt, pain, joy, drama, misadventures and tremendous triumph. By Melinda Newman In ...

Def Leppard's fourth album Hysteria took three years to record, had its fair share of ups and downs along the way, defined the term 'slow burn' in the US and ultimately changed the sound of melodic ...

What is the better Def Leppard album — Pyromania or Hysteria? We've got a little Def Leppard fever this week on the Loudwire Nights radio show, so we've pitted not only two of Def Leppard's biggest ...

With 100 million records sold worldwide, DEF LEPPARD continues to be one of the most potent forces in global rock. For the past 30 years the band has been a top box-office draw, consistently selling ...

Amazing. Every rock ’n’ roll album should start like this. It’s like how Armageddon’s first scene is a prologue set 65 million years ago. Joe is wailing now: It ain’t Shakespeare—or is it? The video ...