History Music / DefLeppard

* ''Def Leppard'' (2015)

* LongestSongGoesLast: Their debut album ''On Through The Night'', as well as their independent ''Def Leppard EP'', closed with [[EpicRocking "The Overture"]]. ''Slang'', ''X'' and their self-titled album also ended with the longest songs on them.

* EpicRocking: They often include one or more long songs on their releases. ''Pyromania'' has "Die Hard the Hunter" at 6:17, ''Hysteria'' has two equally long songs with "Rocket" and "Gods of War" both at 6:37, ''Adrenalize'' chips in with "White Lightning" at 7:03, ''Slang'' gives us "Pearl of Euphoria" at 6:21; their longest song by far is "Overture" from ''On Through The Night'' at 7:40 though they dialled back the song lengths on more recent albums.

* LongRunnerLineUp: same lineup since 1993.

* LyricsVideoMismatch: "Bringin on the Heartbreak".

* PowerBallad: Many, many. The 1987 album ''Hysteria'' is practically built on them. Including the TitleTrack, "Love Bites", and even "Pour Some Sugar on Me".

** Steve Clark was the Performer (technical only when he wanted to) while Phil Collen is a pure Technician. Steve was regarded as main songwriter by both Joe and Phil, composing many of the riffs and solos, and the band gives him full credit for engineering the harmonized 'twin rhythm guitar' sound of "Photograph" and ''Hysteria''[[note]]as opposed to having both guitars just play the same thing, layered up[[/note]]. After he died, Phil was almost driven to leave the band himself out of frustration over his struggles to emulate Steve's playing style, but was successful in doing so for the remainder of Adrenalize.

* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: sleeveless Union Jack shirts and short-shorts.

* BaldOfAwesome:
** Vivian Campbell, he has cancer (as of June 2013) and is STILL on tour, despite the chemo.
** Phil Collen's pretty bare up there as well - and makes up for it by basically becoming a bodybuilder.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: In their beginnings and on ''Pyromania'', they were a solid 6. By the time ''Hysteria'' rolled around, they averaged a 5 and some of their songs were in the 4 range. ''High 'n' Dry'' seems to be a 7. Perhaps a weak one, but most of the time it's clearly metal, and ''On Through the Night'' is slightly stronger on that front. Phil Collen has remarked on the trend ("We were always halfway between heavy metal and Music/DuranDuran").

* ''[[Music/{{Hysteria}} Hysteria]]'' (1987)

* ''Hysteria'' (1987)

* ''Pyromania'' (1983)

* LoveBallad: While they indulged in a few throughout their career, the 1987 album ''Hysteria'' is practically built on then-standard '80s GlamMetal love ballads. Including the TitleTrack, "Love Bites", and even "Pour Some Sugar on Me".

* PowerBallad: Many, many.

Best known for predicating a thirty-year career on the [[BawdySong bawdy]] ChorusOnlySong, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" or their anthem "Rock of Ages" (launched by the page quote), they continue to release records (much more often than in their heyday) and do a world tour almost every year since 2003. The band later experienced something of a career resurgence with well received collaborations with Music/TimMcGraw and Music/TaylorSwift introducing them to a new audience.

Best known for predicating a thirty-year career on the [[BawdySong bawdy]] ChorusOnlySong, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and the terribly unfunny joke "What has nine arms and sucks?", they continue to release records (much more often than in their heyday) and do a world tour almost every year since 2003. The band later experienced something of a career resurgence with well received collaborations with Music/TimMcGraw and Music/TaylorSwift introducing them to a new audience.

* BaldOfAwesome: Vivian Campbell, he has cancer (as of June 2013) and is STILL on tour, despite the chemo.

* {{Determinator}} - Rick Allen after his accident learning to play one handed. To the point after one show on the comeback tour after the accident the backup drummer on standby in case Rick couldn't play the songs said to the rest of the band essentially "You guys don't need me here" and flew home.

* TelevisionGeography - So very very much. Egregious signage,road marking and location errors, a road through high moorland being doubled by a wide highway in Canada, and the fact that almost none of the buildings, street furniture and power equipment actually look even remotely like they do in Britain. And those are the mild examples.

Best known for predicating a thirty-year career on the [[BawdySong bawdy]] ChorusOnlySong, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and the terribly unfunny joke "What has nine arms and sucks?", they continue to release records (much more often than in their heyday) and do a world tour almost every year since 2003 despite becoming musical pariahs in the PostGrunge era.

Recently the band have experienced something of a career resurgence with well received collaborations with Music/TimMcGraw and Music/TaylorSwift introducing them to a new audience.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "I suppose a rock's out of the question?" from "Let's Get Rocked".

* HairMetal: The band themselves deny that they were part of the genre and Joe Elliott has been somewhat dismissive of other hair bands when asked about Leppard's association with the style. They count the British glam bands from the 1970s, such as [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]] and Music/{{Sweet}}, as key influences. However it seems more a reaction to ignorant media types pigeonholing the band than genunine animosity as Leppard have toured with Music/MotleyCrue, Music/{{Poison}} and Music/SteelPanther amongst others.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Slang''. To be fair, Joe Elliott had been making noises about wanting to explore new sounds as far back as ''Hysteria''.
** ''X'' as well.
** ''High 'n' Dry'' as compared to the more traditionally metal-styled ''On Through The Night''.

* LongestSongGoesLast: Their debut album ''On Through The Night'', as well as their independent ''Def Leppard EP'', closed with [[EpicRocking "The Overture"]].

* CoverAlbum: ''Yeah!''

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''Pyromania'', ''Hysteria'', and ''Adrenalize''.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Jim Steinman was briefly brought in to produce ''Hysteria'' when Mutt Lange was unavailable, against the band's wishes. During one of the sessions, he attempted to include a take where Steve and Phil where just tuning their guitars, saying "It sounded honest." The band was incredulous, bought out his contract, and brought Mutt back in at his earliest opportunity.

Originally formed in 1977 in [[OopNorth Sheffield, England]] by five teenagers who really liked glam rock, '''Def Leppard''' became grouped with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) before turning early-MTV pop-rock sweethearts. After kicking out a founding guitarist for too much drunken tomfoolery (Pete Willis), they released a well-received rock album (''Pyromania''), lost another sixth of a member (Rick Allen's left arm), released a phenomenally successful pop-rock record (''Hysteria''), which was essentially aiming to be "the hard rock version of ''[[Music/MichaelJackson Thriller]]''", then the ''other'' original guitarist drank himself to death over the course of a few years (Steve Clark).

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: It's pretty easy to tell not all the actors playing Def Leppard are from Sheffield, or are even British for that matter.