Def Leppard

Def Leppard’s music is a mixture of hard rock, album-oriented rock, heavy metal, elements, and has been associated more with the glam metal movement of the 1980s than with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal of the late 1970s, in large part due to their mainstream success and production. However, Def Leppard have expressed dislike of the “pop metal” label. Def Leppard are an English hard rock/heavy metal band from Sheffield, who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. Largely on the strength of their albums Pyromania and Hysteria, Def Leppard became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums worldwide, including over 35 million in the United States alone.News Archive, blabbermouth.net. View Def Leppard’s squidoopage