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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.

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1	Pour Some Sugar on Me full track	5,814
2	Love Bites	3,111
3	Hysteria	2,842
4	Animal	2,821
5	Armageddon It	1,870
6	Rocket	1,578
7	Photograph	1,256
8	Rock of Ages	1,019
9	Women	995
10	Two Steps Behind full track	910
11	Heaven Is	878
12	Run Riot	672
13	Let's Get Rocked	594
14	Don't Shoot Shotgun	548
15	Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad	538

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FridaKarlberg wrote:
6 hours ago

totally amazing band :)

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drugsky wrote:
yesterday afternoon

emo band

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auron3000 wrote:
Sunday morning

♪♫ Def Leppard ♫♪

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coanta wrote:
Saturday morning

I Love these guys!

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GabrielCerdeira wrote:
Saturday morning

POOOOOOOOOUR SOOOOOOME SUGAR ON MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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doom-kitty wrote:
Friday evening

Pour some sugar on meeeeee <3333333333333

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L3ctar wrote:
Friday evening

Fucking Awesome Band! But very underrated indeed. Rock Rock Till You Drop! \m/

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NathanBolstad wrote:
Friday morning

HE'S BEEN LISTENING TO DEF LEPPARD TOO MUCH

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ilordofwari wrote:
Friday morning

omgggg only 8 million plays?! wow! and to think a shit band like breaking benjamin has 28 million plays. Shocking!

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Braveshell wrote:
last week

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!

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OneForAll wrote:
10 days ago

"We never called it NWOBHM we just called it ROCK !" HELL YEAH!

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thebroadcast wrote:
11 days ago

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......

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Spazyy wrote:
12 days ago

Sure,call one of the most influential bands of all time a "one-hit wonder".That's smart!

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empjori wrote:
13 days ago

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.

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BackNDaDay90 wrote:
14 days ago

They should have way more plays than this!

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Braveshell wrote:
16 days ago

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.

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nessieness wrote:
16 days ago

great band! <333

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Commander_King wrote:
16 days ago

Yea go to hell Shamp00.why come here and attack our music.

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Phlipiman wrote:
18 days ago

Rock rock til' you drop!

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thomashammet wrote:
19 days ago

shamp00 u are stupid...u don´t know what is good xP

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