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Def Leppard @ LA Forum By Los Angeles Times
No, Def Leppard is tight, bright and pristine.
Slick even.
They're not ground-breaking, but they are hard-working, ans occasionally - as on their monster hits like 'Photograph' and 'Rock Of Ages' they sneak real melody into their basic riff-rock that's earned the Def Leppard its spots on the charts.
The group's second strength lies in its arrangements, which are several notches above the norm for the genre.
One wonders how much credit producer Robert John Lange deserves for this, since he's listed as the co-writer of every track on the group's latest, platinum-plus 'Pyromania' LP.
By Los Angeles Times 1983.
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By Billboard
Def Leppard's two-sold out nights at the 18,000-seat Forum were a classic example of stand-on-the-chairs, wave-your-fist, scream-yourself-hoarse audience enthusiasm for a musical form more popular today than when Led Zeppelin invented it in 1969.
They call this 'headbanger' music, not so much for its sheer volume, but because it's about as subtle as being hit between the eyes with a two-by-four.
On Sept, 10, Joe Elliott obligingly tore his voice to shreds as he screeched through AOR favourites 'Photograph', 'Rock Of Ages', 'Foolin;', 'Another Hit And Run', 'Bringin' On The Heartbreak' and other songs from Pyromania' and 'High 'n' Dry'.
Phil Collen played blindingly fast - if boringly similar - guitar riffs as the crowd stomped and flicked their Bics.
By Billboard 1983.
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