Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal of the early 1980s. Their greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and mid-1990s.
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| Genre | Hard rock · heavy metal · glam metal · arena rock · pop rock · power pop · heavy metal (early)
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| Label | Mercury · Universal · Phonogram · Vertigo · PolyGram · Bludgeon-Riffola · Island (US) · Frontiers (EU) · Island · Frontiers · earMUSIC · Jugoton · Croatia Records · Bludgeon-Riffola (their own label)
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members
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past members
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touring members
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FEATURED DISCOGRAPHY
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studio albums
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live albums
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compilation albums
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video albums
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singles
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
| Mood | Party/Celebratory · Rowdy · Confident · Raucous · Rebellious · Aggressive · Brash · Rousing · Rambunctious · Energetic · Slick · Boisterous · Refined/Mannered · Freewheeling · Fun · Earnest
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![Def Leppard - Rock Cellar Magazine Cover [United States] (August 2024)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/i/4/i41hak2cqvp12v.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Def Leppard - Rock It Magazine Cover [Germany] (November 2024)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/y/t/ytji0k45eegekee.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Def Leppard - Fireworks Magazine Cover [United Kingdom] (September 2022)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/5/1/51d6v3f3rdm1fd65.jpg?skj2io4l)
![Def Leppard - Fireworks Magazine Cover [United Kingdom] (July 2022)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/6/w/6w3yv0dqpvxovxq.jpg?skj2io4l)
- Their name was originally spelled Deaf Leopard. They got the idea to alter the spelling from Led Zeppelin.
- Clark and Collen were known as "The Terror Twins," a reference to Aerosmith's Toxic Twins.
- Their first concert was in a room in a spoon factory in Sheffield, England. Only 6 people went to it.
- While some individual members had serious problems with drugs and alcohol, the band was quite tame when they toured, avoiding the typical Rock mayhem and excess.
- In 1997, Phil Collen and Joe Elliott teamed up with Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey from David Bowie's band The Spiders From Mars to go on a tour playing numbers from Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era, calling themselves Cybernauts. They had already played together on The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert in 1993. The album Cybernauts Live was released in 2001, exclusively over the Internet and in Japan. The 7-track bonus disc with studio tracks (1 Hendrix song and 6 Bowie songs) was only available with the Internet release.
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