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The Stadium Tour By Shaun Brady

Def Leppard didn’t shy away from nostalgia — nearly half of the British band’s set was culled from their biggest album, 1987′s Hysteria — but they were the one band of the day that transcended it. (Even young Los Angeles band Classless Act, which played the thankless 3:45 p.m. opening set for a sparse crowd of early arrivals, was an energetic throwback to a Sunset Strip golden age.)

For the most part, an audience member who’d been cryogenically frozen at the first mention of the word “grunge” in the early ‘90s could’ve awoken on Saturday and still sung along with virtually every song of the day. But Leppard actually included four songs from their new album, Diamond Star Halos, which meshed perfectly with the classics.

By The Philadelphia Inquirer 2022 - (Follow link for full review and 4 photos).

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