So, to mark this milestone, we wanted to do something very special for our fans and give them the definitive version of the album, one that incorporates all of the memories and milestones that we caught on tape and some of the madness that we got up to on the road. “It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since the release of Hysteria…” said frontman Joe Elliott, “In some respects it really does seem like only yesterday. Order your copy HERE, and view the unboxing video HERE. Details for each respective version can be found below. The reissue boasts B-sides and live tracks, and additionally the audio for “In The Round In Your Face (Live)” on CD for the first time. The remastered anniversary edition will be released in various formats via Bludgeon Riffola/Mercury/UMe- Super Deluxe Edition, Deluxe Version, 1-CD Standard Version, 2-LP Black Vinyl Version, & limited edition 2-LP Colored Vinyl Version. In conjunction with the documentary series, Def Leppard is releasing Hysteria (Remastered 2017) this Friday, August 4 th. The documentary gives Def Leppard fans a behind the scenes look into the making of the iconic record, thirty years later. Legendary British rock ‘n’ roll icons Def Leppard celebrate the 30 th anniversary of their seminal album Hysteria, one of the best-selling and most influential releases in music history, with mini documentary, Step Inside: Hysteria at 30. PRE-ORDER HYSTERIA 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS HERE Animal simply reached out of the sound system and pulled you in head-first, sonically pure, as slick as anything written by Journey but with claws of its own, it was a summation of both band and the age it emerged into.Watch part two of the new documentary Step Inside: Hysteria At 30 HERE Written in 1984, tortuously assembled over the next two and half years, it’s a tribute to the band and Lange’s never-say-die perfectionism. If a single tune encompassed both the difficulty and the glory of making Hysteria, it was its breakout song. Hysteria is the moment that Def Leppard made their bones as classic writers.
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Here is a simply magnificent piece of work, smoky, sultry, full of grown-up yearning. HysteriaĪs the decades have passed, it has become apparent that Hysteria’s lowest-key and least bombastic song has given the record its timeless edge.
Dressed to perfection by Lange, it was impossible to live through the late 1980s without having this chorus in your head for days on end. That riff has earned its corn ever since: Pour Some Sugar… is reputed to be the hit that finally enabled Leppard to recoup the cost of four years in the studio. The legend goes that Joe Elliott teased the riff for ‘Pour Some Sugar…’ out of an old acoustic guitar during a production break very near the completion of Hysteria. It was a definite twist, with an acid-tongued lyric playing against the immaculate soundscape, and built for night-time radio.
Lange was a maestro of the power ballad (what else would you expect from a man who’d steered the immaculate sounds of The Cars and Foreigner) and here he took the essential formula and constructed Def Leppard’s edgier version. That gloriously memorable ascent from verse (‘Hey, but are you getting it…’) to bridge (‘gimme all of your lovin’) to punning chorus line (‘Armageddon it’) is pure gold, a synthesis of all that Leppard were about, from shimmering guitar arpeggios to flat-out bludgeon riffola. The chorus is supreme, easily an equal melodically to Armageddon It or Pour Some Sugar…, yet Lange, perhaps conscious of the overall dynamic of the record, chooses to accent it differently, a tonal change that adds a classic, cooler touch. Strange that a song of such quality sits only in the middle of the pack, but such are the delights remaining that Gods Of War often gets lost in the shuffle.
What’s wrong with being sexy? The aforementioned Nigel Tufnel’s immortal question haunts Women, Hysteria’s opener.
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