Play Def Leppard Radio
Def Leppard
7,942,123 plays (458,507 listeners)
Listening now: GILFORD09, blackbolt7789
Sheffield, United Kingdom (1977 – present)
Def Leppard are an English rock 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.
Rick Savage (bass), Pete Willis (guitar), and Tony Kenning (drums), all students at Tapton School in Sheffield, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1977. Following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus, 18-year old Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist. During his audition, however, it was decided that he was better suited to be the lead singer.
Soon afterward they adopted a name proposed by Elliott, “Deaf Leopard”, which was originally a band name he thought up while writing reviews for imaginary rock bands in his English class. At Kenning’s suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January of 1978, Steve Clark joined the band. According to Joe Elliott, he successfully auditioned for the band by playing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” in its entirety.
Rick Savage (bass), Pete Willis (guitar), and Tony Kenning (drums), all students at Tapton School in Sheffield, formed a band called Atomic Mass in 1977. Following a chance meeting with Willis after missing a bus, 18-year old Joe Elliott tried out for the band as a guitarist. During his audition, however, it was decided that he was better suited to be the lead singer.
Soon afterward they adopted a name proposed by Elliott, “Deaf Leopard”, which was originally a band name he thought up while writing reviews for imaginary rock bands in his English class. At Kenning’s suggestion, the spelling was slightly modified in order to make the name seem less like that of a punk band. In January of 1978, Steve Clark joined the band. According to Joe Elliott, he successfully auditioned for the band by playing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird” in its entirety.
Top Albums
-
Hysteria
Def LeppardBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Pyromania
Def LeppardBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $71.98
- eBay Search
-
Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
Def LeppardBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $9.49
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Best Of
Def Leppard
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon $15.98
- eBay Search
Top Tracks
| 1 |
|
Pour Some Sugar on Me
full track
|
|||
| 2 |
|
||||
| 3 |
|
||||
| 4 |
|
||||
| 5 | |||||
| 6 |
|
||||
| 7 |
|
||||
| 8 | |||||
| 9 |
|
||||
| 10 |
|
Two Steps Behind
full track
|
|||
| 11 | |||||
| 12 |
|
||||
| 13 | |||||
| 14 | |||||
| 15 |
Shoutbox
-
auron3000 wrote:
♪♫ Def Leppard ♫♪
-
coanta wrote:
I Love these guys!
-
GabrielCerdeira wrote:
POOOOOOOOOUR SOOOOOOME SUGAR ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
-
doom-kitty wrote:
Pour some sugar on meeeeee <3333333333333
-
L3ctar wrote:
Fucking Awesome Band! But very underrated indeed. Rock Rock Till You Drop! \m/
-
NathanBolstad wrote:
HE'S BEEN LISTENING TO DEF LEPPARD TOO MUCH
-
ilordofwari wrote:
omgggg only 8 million plays?! wow! and to think a shit band like breaking benjamin has 28 million plays. Shocking!
-
Braveshell wrote:
Yeah that NWOBHM label was a tag from the UK music hacks that just love to have little pigeonholes to stick each band into... the fans just wanted ROCK bands!
-
OneForAll wrote:
"We never called it NWOBHM we just called it ROCK !" HELL YEAH!
-
thebroadcast wrote:
We never called it NWOBHM we just called it ROCK ! SO yeah bing on the ROCK! You know, like the ones with Pete Willis in the song credits ! Even Photograph ! It should be #1. I would like to see one song, at least one song with Pete in the credits that is playable. Guess I'll just have to breakout the old "High 'n Dry " cassette, and hey, Roadhouse rocks, 2 former Leppard musicians were in that band ( Roadhouse). Get some real "Roadhouse" ( not a facsimile ) and put it under similar artists for Def Leppard. Peace and stay alive. I miss Steve, saw him live in '87 and saw Viv live with Whitesnake in, '87 too, I think. I was at a guitar workshop with Viv and Adrian Vandenberg the day before the WS show. Ok, so people want the NWOBHM years ! Bring them on. Perhaps Def Leppard could have a reunion, if Yes can do it then why not Def Leppard ? Get Mutt & Pete on the Phone ! Crow Edge Studios, Sheffield......
-
Spazyy wrote:
Sure,call one of the most influential bands of all time a "one-hit wonder".That's smart!
-
empjori wrote:
Yeah, they're quite underrated here. One hit wonder? They have 4 supreme albums. And "Pour Some Sugar on Me" is not even their best song.
-
BackNDaDay90 wrote:
They should have way more plays than this!
-
Braveshell wrote:
Its a bit rich for someone to call a band a "one hit wonder"... primarily as they were around before Shamp00 was born and have... well lets see... acrued 65 milion album sales to date in those 30 years since they first picked up a record deal. Hardly the mark of OHW's. A great band.
-
nessieness wrote:
great band! <333
-
Commander_King wrote:
Yea go to hell Shamp00.why come here and attack our music.
-
Phlipiman wrote:
Rock rock til' you drop!
-
thomashammet wrote:
shamp00 u are stupid...u don´t know what is good xP
-
Lil-IceD wrote:
good music
-
daisler10 wrote:
let´s get rocked yeah jumping and dancing everytime
Videos
See more
Events
- Nov 20 Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Man Raze GIANT Center, Hershey, United States
- Nov 21 Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Man Raze Mark G. Etess Arena,, Atlantic City, NJ, United States
-
Nov
25
Def Leppard with Cheap Trick
Freedom Hall, Louisville KY, United States
Add shout
| 2 attendees
-
Nov
27
Def Leppard with Cheap Trick and Man Raze
AT&T Center, San Antonio TX, United States
3 shouts
| 2 attendees
News
30 Jacksons for Jackson's 30th
7 Nov 2009 | from www.defleppard.com
Currently in production to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jackson Guitars: 30 very unique versions of Phil's PC1 model, hand-painted and signed by Phil himself.
-
1 Nov 2009 | from www.defleppard.com -
30 Oct 2009 | from www.defleppard.com -
20 Oct 2009 | from www.defleppard.com
Listeners
-
TiinanoNinja
Listening now
to Gift of Flesh -
driverman
Listening now
to Rock of Ages -
Flying-Doctor
Listening now
to Pour Some Sugar on Me -
Uniota
Top Listener
-
Spazyy
Top Listener
-
spirit_of_war
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
GILFORD09, csh471, vballer4life and 29 other people added Def Leppard to their libraries. just now
-
NGBahamut wrote about Def Leppard in Artists to listen to sometime. yesterday evening
-
rbrun, gritz76, brianporter05 and 9 other people added Def Leppard to their libraries. yesterday evening
-
Funkafonik wrote about Def Leppard in Favorite Musicians - Part II (Duos). yesterday evening
-
rcarvalho09, sergiopitel, joboospode and 29 other people added Def Leppard to their libraries. yesterday evening
-
NoPictures tagged Def Leppard with classic rock, hair metal, 80s and 2 other tags. yesterday afternoon
-
obliviouswillow, howsee, sinek52 and 8 other people added Def Leppard to their libraries. yesterday afternoon
-
Amaterasu_1 tagged Def Leppard with hair metal and hard rock. yesterday morning
-
phatninja32, chet12, METALLIFAN95 and 1 other person added Def Leppard to their libraries. yesterday morning
-
Dustincopter wrote about Def Leppard – Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits in sup. last month
Related Journals
-
Artists to listen to sometime
by NGBahamut |
22 Nov 2009 | 1 comment
-
Favorite Musicians - Part II (Duos)
by Funkafonik |
22 Nov 2009 | Add comment
-
Random Music Survey
by MYELECTROMARK |
20 Nov 2009 | Add comment
Groups (215)
-
80's Hard Glam Hair..!
33 members
-
Glam LT
37 members
-
Glam Hair Metal Polska
118 members
-
Def Leppard
516 members
-
NWOBHM fans
57 members
More Information
- Links
- Band Members
- Labels
Email Newsletter
Get exclusive tour, release & promotion updates on Def Leppard from Universal Music.
