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By Darryl Smyers

Beginning with "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)," lead singer Joe Elliot and crew proved that simplicity is the key when connecting with an audience content to remember their glory days in high school and (maybe) college. This was beer-drinking music of the highest order as fans reveled in power chords and playful sexual innuendo of "Animal," "Foolin'" and "Love Bites."

No one comes to a Def Leppard concert expecting intellectual discourse. It was easily digestible, processed and polished to utter perfection. There were no sour notes and nothing was sung even remotely off key. Def Leppard's music is the definition of "made for mass consumption," a heaving plate of family-filtered lust that rested comfortably alongside the slightly more progressive fare of Styx and Telsa.

In a way, Def Leppard is the aural equivalent of Hooters.

Yet, by the time Def Leppard got around to "Rocket," "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me," the band had descended into that rather comfortable niche that separates the friendly from the profane. Even though countless exotic dancers have plied their craft to these very songs, fathers, wives and daughters danced gleefully into the August night, seemingly oblivious to the very nature of the songs themselves.

By Dallas Morning News 2015.

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