Quiz #35 - Def Leppard "Love bites"

Very sunny outside, getting ready to make use of that bike. Still have some money left to spend on useless shit I'll never use pretty things and souvenirs.

Until I get back to celebrate various things and get plastered in the process, you have this contest to keep you company. And you have til July 25 to provide the correct answer for it.

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Def Leppard, in many ways, was the definitive hard rock band of the '80s. There were many bands that rocked harder, and were more dangerous than the Sheffield quintet, but few others captured the spirit of the times quite as well. Emerging in the late '70s as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the group actually owed more to the glam rock and metal of the early '70s (their sound was equal parts T. Rex, Mott the Hoople, Queen, and Led Zeppelin).

By toning down their heavy riffs and emphasizing melody, Def Leppard was poised for crossover success by 1983's "Pyromania", but skillfully used the fledgling MTV network to their advantage. The group was already blessed with photogenic good looks, but they also crafted a series of innovative, exciting videos that made them into stars. They intended to follow Pyromania quickly but were derailed when their drummer lost an arm in a car accident, the first of many problems that plagued the group's career. Def Leppard managed to pull through such tragedies, and they even expanded their large audience with 1987's blockbuster "Hysteria".

As the '90s began, mainstream hard rock shifted away from Leppard's signature pop-metal and toward edgier, louder bands, yet the group maintained a sizable audience into the late '90s and were one of only a handful of '80s metal groups to survive the decade more or less intact.

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Def Leppard "Love bites"
Album "Hysteria" - 1987