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By David Dorsey

After a 30-minute break, Def Leppard stormed the stage. It took the five-man British band four songs to really get rolling.

After "Hell Raiser" (a cover on their new release of 1970s cover songs, Yeah!), "Make Love Like a Man," and "Promises" - good songs but not Def Leppard's greatest - were out of the way, Def Leppard broke out many of their hits from the albums Pyromania and Hysteria.

Bassist Rick Savage performed a gritty solo as an introduction to "Rock On," a cover of the David Essex classic and perhaps the best song on the new CD. One-armed drummer Rick Allen - he lost his left arm in a car accident in the 1980s - seems quite used to the foot-pedaled drum kit.

Guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell and vocalist Joe Elliott sounded as good as ever.

By The News-Press 2006.

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