“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On April 18, 1992, Def Leppard hit No. 1 with their fifth album 'Adrenalized,' their first without guitarist Steve Clark.

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 ...

Def Leppard revealed an orchestral version of their 1987 hit “Hysteria,” the second single on their upcoming Drastic Symphonies album, a collection of the band’s songs over the past 40 years reworked ...

Collen was asked if Def Leppard are going to tour to celebrate the landmark album's 30th anniversary. "We are," he said. "I know it'll be next year we're gonna go on tour. … We're getting some offers ...

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 ...

Friday (March 22) was a day that Def Leppard will likely remember for quite some time. It began with a proclamation for Las Vegas' mayor proclaiming it "Def Leppard Day" in the city and ended with the ...

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 ...

Def Leppard are in select company, alongside such acts as Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the Beatles, as one of the few rock bands to have multiple diamond record certifications, for 10 million albums ...