“When we started working on Hysteria we had just sold eight million records with Pyromania so we knew we had a fanbase. “We’ve always wanted to be a band for the people,” Collen says. We're about as close to metal as we are to Madonna.”ĭespite their disenchantment with metal, Def Leppard still had a slew of commercial metal fans and glam rock fans who didn’t bail on them, and with radio hits like “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” “Love Bites,” “Animal” and “Rocket,” Def Leppard attracted a new fan base from fans of U2 and Prince to kids who had just one or two hard-rock records in their collections. “We never wanted to be a metal band, ever. “Even when we were grouped as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, we didn’t think we were at all like the other bands people were talking about ,” he told me in 1999. Then again, guitarist Phil Collen says they never liked being categorized with British metal bands. If 1983’s Pyromania marked Def Leppard’s toe-dip into pop, Hysteria was a cannonball off the deep end. 3, 1987, they had completely shattered the mold and discovered a sound based on catchy melodies, heavily processed drums, layered, shimmery walls of guitar and clean, crisp vocals. “ They were one of the first bands the British press categorized as part of the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) movement, but by the time Def Leppard released their fourth record, Hysteria, on Aug. Loudwire investigated Hysteria on its thirty-fourth anniversary on 3rd August, 2021: Before that, there are features that explain and explore the making of the album. I will get to a couple of reviews for Hysteria. I feel it is a rightful classics whose singles – such as Animal and Pour Some Sugar on Me – rank alongside some of the best from the 1980s. It is good that Hysteria did sell so many copies as it was an incredibly expensive album to make! Running in at over an hour, Hysteria is a long album.
Def Leppard's best-selling album to date, it went on to sell over twenty million copies worldwide, including 12 million in the U.S. The fourth studio album from the Yorkshire band, it was released on 3rd August, 1987. That is coming up to its thirty-fifth anniversary, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is in my thoughts.
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