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By Jeffrey Lee Puckett

Def Leppard headlined the show, the rare Kentucky State Fair finale dedicated to rock instead of country, and delivered a strong set of its trademark deeply layered, highly catchy music.

Def Leppard essentially defined hard rock in the 1980s with its "Hysteria" and "Pyromania" albums, and the band cherry-picked the most popular songs from those albums. The last 30 or 40 minutes was one huge song after another starting with "Bringing On the Heartache" and pile-driving through "Hysteria," "Armageddon It," the brilliant "Photograph" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me."

Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Rick Allen and Vivian Campbell seemed to be having a blast -- there was a lot of shirtless rocking going down -- and so did the crowd. The biggest hits were massive singalongs, with fans jacked up on nostalgia and a very present energy.

By Courier-Journal 2007.

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