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By Des Moines Register

Lead singer Joe Elliott's screeching vocals were hidden under it all, but maybe that was for the best.

He seemed to sing in a monotone all night.

On record Def Leppard has a melodious sound, not often found in a heavy metal band.

They lose that melody in their live show, drowning it in the power-guitar rock that is too often found in most heavy metal bands.

The special sound the band has on record is lost amid the typical 'loud is best' formula of heavy metal.

Good songs like 'Animal' and 'Bringin' On The Heartbreak' were reduced to loud, boring pieces of junk rock.

By Des Moines Register 1987.

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