Def leppard biography history
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def leppard / Def Leppard Band Formation
on this day - November 1977
On this day (/during this month) in Def Leppard history the first grupp line-up formed in Sheffield, England.
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This section looks at how the first line-up of Def Leppard formed in November 1977. The start of a career that has lasted for over 40 years and seen them play all over the world.
"We thought 'God, this guy really means business'."
Def Leppard formed as a grupp exactly 42 years ago this month in Sheffield, England.
Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Tony Kenning had formed a short-lived band called Atomic Mass in the summer of 1977.
bygd the Autumn they were joined bygd a new singer called Joe Elliott and in November the first line-up of "Deaf Leopard" was born.
Joe had attended the only live performance by Atomic Mass at Tapton school gym in summer
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Def Leppard
British rock band
"Leppard" redirects here. For the animal, see Leopard.
This article is about the band. For their 2015 self-titled album, see Def Leppard (album).
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1976. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal of the early 1980s. Their greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and mid–1990s.
With a line-up of Savage, Elliott, Allen and guitarists Steve Clark and Pete Willis, the band's first album, 1980's On Through the Night, reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. Their second album, 1981's High 'n' Dry, was produced by Mutt Lange, who helped them to define their melodic hard rock style. The album's most popular track "
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1977
In November, the first Def Leppard rehearsal takes place in a spoon factory near Bramall Lane, Sheffield (UK). Lead singer Joe Elliott, bass player Rick "Sav" Savage, guitarist Pete Willis, and drummer Tony Kenning just renamed the band from Deaf Leopard (a name first coined by Joe Elliott at school in 1975) to Def Leppard. At Christmas, the band perform their first gig for six friends. Six songs are played, including covers by David Bowie, Thin Lizzy and their own original "MISTY DREAMER".
1978
In January, Steve Clark joins the band as the second guitarist. Between February and July, the band rehearse interminably until Steve Clark threatens to quit if they don't get out and play. On July 18, Def Leppard play their first public gig at Westfield School in Sheffield. They are paid 5 Pounds -- out of a teacher's pocket. In November, drummer Tony Kenning is fired from the band and replaced by Frank Noon for the band's first recording, &quo