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By Mike Devlin

Def Leppard had the crowd on its side early, but struggled during Love Bites, and Elliott never really found his form until the megahit Rocket, which came just past the halfway mark.

But once he got into his groove, the group never looked back. Bringin’ on the Heartbreak was a power-ballad powerhouse, and outpaced some of the bigger hits in the set. After the band ripped through Switch 625, an instrumental from 1981’s High ‘n’ Dry, it was all about the smash hits.

Hysteria, Let’s Get Rocked and Pour Some Sugar on Me — the last of which almost sent the crowd of 6,411 into cardiac arrest — closed the main portion of Def Leppard’s set. And it did so in remarkable fashion.

Just when it looked as if the band had no more hits to play, they come back out for the encore and dropped two of the biggest radio hits of 1983 in Rock of Ages and Photograph.

By Times Colonist 2015.

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