The third single, ' Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad', was a Top 15 song in the US, UK and Canada. 3 in Canada and Switzerland, and the Top 20 in Sweden and Germany.

It contained several hits, including the US Rock Tracks chart-topper, ' Let's Get Rocked', which became their biggest hit in several countries, including No. 1 on the UK, US, NZ, Canadian and Australian charts in 1992, while going Top 10 in Sweden and Germany. Their next studio album, Adrenalize (their first following the death of guitarist Steve Clark), reached No. Hysteria had four Top 10 hits in New Zealand. 6, the biggest UK hit), and ' Rocket' (a Top 15 hit in many countries). 2 in NZ), alongside ' Pour Some Sugar on Me' (US No. 1 ' Love Bites' (went Top 10 in several other countries including No. The album spawned six Top 20 US singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 No. It has been certified 12× platinum for sales in the US and 13× platinum in Canada, selling over 25 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. 10 in Germany without any Top 50 singles in those countries. 2 on the US album chart, Pyromania was certified Diamond in the US and 7× platinum in Canada and reached the top 20 in the UK but did not sell much elsewhere.ĭef Leppard's fourth album, the more pop-oriented Hysteria (1987), topped the UK, US, New Zealand, Canadian, Australian and Norway charts. Def Leppard's next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with ' Photograph' and ' Rock of Ages' both topping the US Rock Tracks chart and reaching the top 20 of the Hot 100. Their second album, 1981's High 'n' Dry, was produced by Mutt Lange, who helped them begin to define their melodic hard rock style, and the album's most popular track ' Bringin' On the Heartbreak' became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982, but the album only reached the Top 30 and 40 in the UK and US.

Their first album, 1980's On Through the Night, reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. The band's greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the early 1980s. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitars, backing vocals). Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield.

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