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Kiss, Def Leppard deliver showmanship By Marc Hirsh

A solid decade separates the heydays of Kiss and Def Leppard, but both bands served a similar role for a certain type of person’s teenage years. So even though there may have been a full pop-music generation separating the coheadlining bands' fanbases Friday at the Xfinity Center, it didn’t matter. Everyone had the same inner 15-year-old coming out to party, regardless of which band they called theirs.

With only one lineup change since their breakthrough "Pyromania" - out of necessity when guitarist Steve Clark died in 1991; they didn't even replace their drummer when he lost an arm - the members of Def Leppard are nothing if not loyal to the band. They’re in it for the long haul, which may be why their approach didn’t seem to have changed since 1988. There was no attempt to switch things up, save an acoustic "Bringin' On The Heartbreak" that became the familiar full-electric version by the end anyway.

By The Boston Globe 2014.

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