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 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 ...

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 ...

It's hard to imagine without it, but Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" almost wasn't a part of their monstrous '80s album Hysteria. Here's how the band's biggest hit made it onto the album last ...

Def Leppard will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their best-selling LP, 1987’s Hysteria, with a remastered box set out August 4th via Universal. The reissue will be available in multiple formats: ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Ahhh, nothing is quite like 1980s hard rock and heavy metal. The whiff of hair spray permeating the air, tough guy rockers sporting more eye-liner than their groupies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although he’s admittedly not an ardent comics fan now and hasn’t followed any recent titles, Collen latched onto the art form ...

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 ...

What an animal: Collen co-wrote the appropriately titled Vault Comics title about a demonic guitar. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer As a teen in England, Phil Collen was obsessed with all things ...