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35 Years Ago On Through The Night Album Hits #15 In UK

Sunday, 29th March 2015





On Through The Night 1980.

Def Leppard's classic debut album On Through The Night reached number 15 on the UK Top 100 chart 35 years ago on this day in 1980.

The band's first studio album was released on 14th March 1980 and entered the chart on this day at its peak position of 18.

It would spend eight weeks on the chart. Spending two weeks at Number 15 after entering at 64.

It spent five weeks in all inside the Top 40, three in the Top 20 and feel off the chart in early May.

On Through The Night - October 1988 MTV Special Band Quotes

Steve Clark - "We recorded the first album at Startling Studios, which is owned by Ringo Starr in Ascot. And we had a real lot of fun making that record. That's why it sounds like it does."

Rick Savage - "It's a vague memory doing the record because it was the first time. It's like 'so this is what it's like to be in the music business' sort of thing."

Rick Allen - "I think we drank far too much."

Rick Savage - "We used to get drunk every night and still try and record. And it's like totally young kids playing at being musicians and I think that's how it sounded to me."






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