Leapin' Leppards! They're Back At Last
Go ahead, call them names. They’ve heard ’em all before. At least the kind of names that depict Def Leppard as “heavy metal’s Boston,” referring to the four-year gap between 1983’s supersmash Pyromania and its just-released followup, Hysteria.
"... We ought to call the album Halley's Comet because they come out about as often!" —Joe Elliott
Leapin' Leppards! They're Back At Last
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Toby Goldstein
Go ahead, call them names. They’ve heard ’em all before. At least the kind of names that depict Def Leppard as “heavy metal’s Boston,” referring to the four-year gap between 1983’s supersmash Pyromania and its just-released followup, Hysteria. Joe Elliott, the band’s tousle-haired lead singer, isn’t at all upset by the comparison. In fact, he lets fly a warm, northern British chuckle and contributes one of his own. “We had people in Sheffield saying we ought to call the album Halley’s Comet, because they come out about as often!
“We did have a lot of difficulties,” he confesses, suddenly becoming a lot more serious. “We did a lot of screwing up ourselves. I’d be the first to admit it, we weren’t blameless for the lengthy hiatus we had.”