![]() ![]() We’ve got to keep our credibility.’ It didn’t do great as a single, but I think it kept that credibility thing there because it was a rock song and it sounded very Def Leppard. Our former manager Cliff Burnstein was like, ‘We really want to connect from a rock point of view. It sounded different to anything else out there.” Let Collen guide you through Def Leppard’s swaggering peak, track by track. It was great when it started taking shape. “It was a journey making it we were trying to achieve something. Mutt and us wanted to make a hybrid of AC/DC, full-on rock, and Queen, who were just magical.” After a slow reception initially, Hysteria’s success was given a boost by the success of glam-rock stomper “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” It kick-started a phenomenon. It was the first time an album in the rock genre was being presented as a pop album. “Most rock bands are very narrow-minded and stick within a genre, but to us it was anything that sounded great. “There was so much great stuff happening, like Prince, Michael Jackson, Frankie Goes to Hollywood-great-sounding records,” says Collen. Pyromania had infused the group’s metal anthems with an expansive pop sheen, and here they sought to channel an even wider range of influences into their sound. Mutt Lange was amazing, a genius, and I don’t say that lightly.” ![]() “We ended up having seven singles off of it,” lead guitarist Phil Collen tells Apple Music. Released in August 1987, the resultant album Hysteria sold over 20 million copies, which tells you all you need to know about how successful the group was in achieving Lange’s aim. They should, Lange said, make the rock version of Thriller. He told them that too many bands were copying their sound and they needed to set themselves apart from the pack. With earworm hooks the size of mountain ranges and a weapons-grade onslaught of undeniableWhen Def Leppard arrived at the follow-up to their mega-selling third album, 1983’s Pyromania, producer Mutt Lange shared his vision with the Sheffield heavy metal crew. The third in Def Leppard's trilogy of Mutt Lange-produced '80s blockbusters, Hysteria presented the band's pop-informed hard-rocking roar writ larger than ever.
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