In theory, it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen in your ears. Lay down some stacked, offbeat drum tracks, assemble lyrics out of a list of ‘70s rock icons, add some reversed recordings here and ...

Released in January 1989 as the seventh and final single from Hysteria, Def Leppard's "Rocket" is notable for a bunch of call-outs to songs and artists who influenced the band. The ...

Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen recalls his rock ’n’ roll awakening as clearly as a photograph. “I went to my first concert in ’72, which was Deep Purple,” he said via Zoom from a tour stop in ...

“We’ve always wanted to be a band for the people,” Collen says. “When we started working on Hysteria we had just sold eight million records with Pyromania so we knew we had a fanbase. We weren’t ...