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Def Leppard is a British rock band founded in 1977.

The band currently consists of Joe Elliott as singer, Phil Collen for guitar and vocals, Vivian Campbell for guitar and vocals, Rick Savage for bass and vocals, and Rick Allen on drums. Def Leppard have a very long career: this formation has endured together for about a quarter of a century. The longevity of Def Leppard is even more amazing given the origin of the band: singer Joe Elliott, bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen know each other as teenagers at school, in Sheffield, England, and are being swept away by the wave of British metal that includes Iron Maiden and Motorhead.

Def Leppard released their first album, On Through The Night, in 1980, but then achieved a huge commercial success with the albums Pyromania in 1983 and Hysteria in 1987 and their music became a reference especially for the American heavy metal scene, closer to melody and AOR elements.

Since then, Def Leppard has sold more than 100 million albums and dozens of world tours. In 2019, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Def Leppard’s music is a mixture of hard rock, AOR and pop elements, with its multi-layered parts, characteristic vocal harmonies and melodic guitar riffs. Despite being included among the main bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, the band achieved mass success as a representative of the hair metal genre in the mid-eighties.

The sound of the group is characterized by different guitar parts and vocal harmonies that intertwine with each other.

With Pyromania and Hysteria both being able to obtain diamond record certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, Def Leppard became one of only five bands to have had two albums that sold over 10 million copies in the United States, but they were the only ones able to do it with two albums released in the same decade. Both Pyromania and Hysteria appear on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 best albums of all time.