They woke up the next morning, Phil felt this weight on his wrist and he’d bought this really expensive watch. Rick Allen: Joe had this car called Dirk and Steve and Phil drove it into town. Even the sophisticated ones probably puked up in somebody’s garden. Most rock stars are probably trying to hide it, but they all did it. And your mom will be able to say, ‘See, my son is a rock star’.”Įlliott: For at least the first month in Ireland, we didn’t do a lot of writing - we did do a lot of drinking. I said, “I will make you a promise, Joe, before I leave here, you will be on Top of the Pops. I remember Joe Elliott said to me, “My mum goes to the hairdresser every Saturday and the other women in the hairdressers make fun of her because she’s told them I’m a rock star and none of them have seen me on Top of the Pops.” The only way you got on Top of the Pops was to have a top 30 single in England and they hadn’t had one, nothing close, in fact. They’d had albums that had been enormous in America. Pyromania had done great but I don’t think we’d gotten the royalties in yet, so we were probably still on a wage.Ĭliff Burnstein, co-manager: We only put out three singles from Pyromania because we thought, “Why go further? You’re going to have a new album out in a couple of years.” We probably left a lot on the table with that record.ĭavid Simone, Phonogram Managing Director: When I came in to Phonogram, they were already working on Hysteria. Joe Elliott, lead singer/co-founder: We set up shop in a house in Dublin and invested in a few little four-track recorders. 3, 1987.ĭef Leppard Hysteria 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Courtesy of Donovan PR However, its success was far from certain when it came out Aug. 3). In the end, Hysteria spent 78 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart - the most weeks spent in the top 10 for an album by a rock band in the chart’s 61-year history. The album spawned an extraordinary seven hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 - including an impressive six top 20-charting smashes. 25 biggest album ever on the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. Hysteria, a meticulously crafted rock masterpiece infused with elements of pop, new wave, glam, and even rap, turned into one of the defining albums of the ’80s, certified 12x platinum by the RIAA and named the No. “We didn’t quite know how the response was going to be because they were out of the marketplace for so long and when we last left them, they were a hard rock band in 1983 with a hard rock audience,” recalls Cliff Burnstein, who managed the band with Peter Mensch. Costs ballooned to nearly $5 million and almost four years passed by the time Def Leppard released Hysteria (so named after an off-the-cuff comment by Allen) on PolyGram imprint Mercury in the U.S. But then almost everything that could go wrong did, from the catastrophic car accident that cost drummer Rick Allen his left arm to spending eight expensive, and ultimately wasted, months with the wrong producer.
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