![]() I actually made the pilgrimage to Sheffield from my home on the Sussex coast to see the band in front of their adoring home town fans on the tour. This is about Def Leppard, about Hysteria and about them celebrating the success of that release some 31 years later. I could go on but this is not about those albums, although, if you were there it was just an absolutely wonderful time to be a rock music fan. introduced themselves to the world with Appetite for Destruction. Whitesnake re-invented their sound with 1987, The Cult released Electric, Motley Crue gave us Girls, Girls, Girls, Marillion hit the charts with Clutching At Straws, Aerosmith made their big comeback with Permanent Vacation and a certain 5 piece from L.A. There must have been something in the creative water in 1987 as this much fawned over masterpiece was one of a number of great albums to come out that year. It took the band over 3 years to create with producer Robert “Mutt” Lange and has a decent play time of just over 62 minutes. It spawned not one, not two, but seven, yes seven hit singles from its twelve tracks and went to be number one in a host of countries including both the UK and USA. Since coming out on Mercury Records, Hysteria has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide, with over 12 million of them being sold in the USA. I am happy to say that it is now an album that has been a massive part of my life ever since. ![]() I seem to remember making sure that I made a trip to my local Woolworths (remember them), that had a great record section and picked my copy up on release date as I just had to hear it. It was that long ago, you still went to your local store to buy your albums, on vinyl, on their release date, and in those days, albums came out on a Monday. Who would have known that as the album hit the record store shelves, that we would now be celebrating what has in many ways become one of the most celebrated and iconic albums in rock history. In fact, it was that incident which in the end gave the album it’s title when Rick himself came up with the name in reference to his 1984 accident and the media frenzy that followed. It was well documented, if my memory hasn’t completely left me about the troubles the band had gone through in recording the album, not least when drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash. It had been nearly 4 years since they had released Pyromania and as a then 17 year old rock fan, there was undeniable hype about the albums impending release. That band were Def Leppard and that album was Hysteria.įrom a personal point of view I remember getting really excited about the albums release. Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK, Ronald Reagan was President of the USA, Pope John Paul II presided over the Catholic church, oh and a certain band from Sheffield, after much hard work, troubles and heartbreak released a little album that would go on to change the shape of rock music as we knew it. Not much really happened if you search on the internet. The 3 rd August 1987 is in many ways just another mundane Monday in the annuls of history.
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