Back in the dark ages of music on physical media, albums that were “out of print” were inaccessible and hard to find. Now, with wide swathes of popular music history readily available on major ...

As part of the celebration surrounding the 30th anniversary of their blockbuster Hysteria LP, the members of Def Leppard participated in a new "mini-documentary" looking back on the making of the ...

Def Leppard cover artist Andie Airfix knew CDs were about to kill vinyl records. Still, he was determined to go out with a big bang if 1987's Hysteria was going to be the last project he designed ...

Def Leppard and others involved in the creation and marketing of 'Hysteria' talk about the long road fraught with doubt, pain, joy, drama, misadventures and tremendous triumph. By Melinda Newman In ...

You can look for the Def Leppard Hysteria box set being reissued in multiple formats -- a single disc "vanilla" version, a 3-CD version, a 2-LP version on black vinyl ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

In We’re No. 1, A.V. Club music editor Steven Hyden examines an album that went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts to get to the heart of what it means to be “popular” in pop music, and how that concept ...

The story of Def Leppard’s Hysteria – the monolithic pop-metal record that defined the latter part of the Eighties – reads like Homeric odyssey. The four-year gap between their 1983 mainstream ...

With 100 million records sold worldwide, DEF LEPPARD continues to be one of the most potent forces in global rock. For the past 30 years the band has been a top box-office draw, consistently selling ...

What is the better Def Leppard album — Pyromania or Hysteria? We've got a little Def Leppard fever this week on the Loudwire Nights radio show, so we've pitted not only two of Def Leppard's biggest ...

The hit-filled concert film 'Def Leppard Viva! Hysteria Concert' will be shown Oct. 2 and 8. Billboard exclusively premieres the trailer here. Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott also hints of new music… ...

Amazing. Every rock ’n’ roll album should start like this. It’s like how Armageddon’s first scene is a prologue set 65 million years ago. Joe is wailing now: It ain’t Shakespeare—or is it? The video ...