Def Leppard had no idea what a monumental task was ahead when they began to write for the follow-up to their 1984 multi-platinum breakthrough Pyromania. The album would eventually survive through four ...

“We’ve always wanted to be a band for the people,” Collen says. “When we started working on Hysteria we had just sold eight million records with Pyromania so we knew we had a fanbase. We weren’t ...

That's partly a byproduct of the era. When the album came out in 1987, CDs were just starting to become a major player in the music industry, which was still dominated by LPs and cassettes at the time ...

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 ...

When Def Leppard‘s Hysteria came out 30 years ago, it made itself known as a massive achievement, its wall-to-wall sonics and skyscraping harmonies sounding like a turbo-charged version of the ...

Def Leppard revealed an orchestral version of their 1987 hit “Hysteria,” the second single on their upcoming Drastic Symphonies album, a collection of the band’s songs over the past 40 years reworked ...

Four years passed between Def Leppard’s massive Pyromania and the band’s pop metal masterpiece Hysteria. The masterpiece tested the limits of the compact disc and became a thoroughly ...

In We’re No. 1, A.V. Club music editor Steven Hyden examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be “popular” in pop music, and how that concept ...

Vault and Def Leppard have announced a special zero comic book issue ahead of Hysteria, the forthcoming graphic novel co-written by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen and Eliot Rahal, drawn by Alex ...

From On Through The Night to High N' Dry to Pyromania and Hysteria, every Def Leppard album released in the 80s, ranked.

Def Leppard are in select company, alongside such acts as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Beatles, as one of the few rock bands to have multiple diamond record certifications, for 10 million albums ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its best-selling album, Def Leppard will reissue "Hysteria" as a two-CD package Oct. 24 via Bludgeon Riffola/Island/UME. By Billboard Staff To celebrate the 20th ...