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Def Leppard – ‘Hysteria U.S. Tour 1988’ – Tour Book

It has been awhile since we’ve gone through a Tour Book and this time around, we have a three set series on Def Leppard Tour Books. Only 3 because that is all I have at this time. And we are kicking it off with the band’s biggest tour, Hysteria. The Tour ran from 1987-1988 and I saw it 3 times. Yep, three times. Twice in Atlanta, one of which I won on a Radio call-in show, and once in Chattanooga, TN because we had to see them again.

Looking back, what was great about these shows is that I got to see Steve Clark play as he passed a few years later. The band was Joe Elliott, Rick Allen, Rick Savage, Steve Clark and Phil Collen and the album Hysteria was their biggest selling album of all time going Diamond with well over 12 million copies. It spawned an impressive 7 singles and they were the biggest band in the world at that time. They are still one of my favorite bands of all time and why I didn’t buy a tour book back then is beyond me…probably because I was a broke high school student…we will go with that. So, here is the book in all its glory…

The cover is above as the header and if you notice the triangle cut out. When you open it, you get to see the same concert shot wrapped by the Hysteria album cover.

Unlike a lot of Tour books, we don’t get an individual band member page talking about each member. Basically every page has all the members as it is a band…

This next page give us a little history on the band from the release of the ‘Hysteria’ album up to the 1988 leg of the tour. It is a nice long essay that is a must read.

More and more band shots…

This next one has a little flap on the right side…

And when folded out, changes the picture to this…

Now we are to the page where the band thanks the road crew. This time they take it a step further and give you pictures of the road crew which I think is an awesome touch!!

And lastly is the Merch page and one last band photo…

Oh yeah, can’t forge the back cover…

And that is everything. I hope you enjoyed the walk through the book and we have two more Tour Books to go through over the next couple weeks. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Thanks for hanging around.

Here is a list of all the Tour Books we have reviewed over the years. Links are provided so you can go see some history.

Alice Cooper:

• Welcome To My Nightmare Tour (1975)
• Guilty Tour (1977)

Kiss Tour Book Series:

• Animalize Tour (1984)
• Asylum Tour (1985)
• Alive / Worldwide Tour (1996-1997)
• Alive / Worldwide Tour Special Edition (1997)
• World Domination Tour (2003-2004
• 40th Anniversary Tour – Decades of Decibels (2014)
• End of the Road Tour (2019) – Coming Soon
• Bon Jovi – New Jersey Tour / Brotherhood Tour (1988)
• Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi Tour (2011)
• Rush – Power Windows Tour (1985)
• Rush – Roll The Bones Tour (1991)
• Rush – Counterparts Tour (1994)
• Rush – Test For Echos Tour (1996)

Def Leppard:

• Def Leppard – Hysteria U.S. Tour (1988)

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Nice trip down memory lane. Not the sort of albums I listen to frequently but enjoy your take.

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Omg I love this so much! Also, I love this part: “Unlike a lot of Tour books, we don’t get an individual band member page talking about each member. Basically every page has all the members as it is a band…” Every page featuring all of the members as a band, I love that! Jon Bon Jovi should take notes. I also love that the book features pictures of the road crew; that’s a nice way for the band to show their appreciation for them! One last thing, I really dig when Rick Allen used to wear a black hat because I thought it gave him an edge (and he looked so adorable). Ok, I’m done!

Ha! Thanks for reading. This is why I love the Tour books…memories and great pictures. You will enjoy the next two tour books as well.

Oh yes, indeed! I totally see why people collect tour books now. Great picks and a journey to the past. Oh yes, absolutely! I am pumped for the ‘Adrenalize’ tour book next (or The 7 Day Weekend tour, I believe)!

They are fun…especially if you saw that tour.

Yeah, for me, tour books would just be fun to look at. For concert goers like you, you’d have a better connection with certain tour books that you saw the tour for.

You saw them three times in the tour ! That’s impressive !

And I discovered that there is a like button under every post.

Yes, there is a Like button.

I would’ve seen them more but that was all I could get to.

Good timing to post this! I wish I could find mine! I really hope I have it.

It is a good one to have. Now I want the 87 edition and the Japanese edition and even the Europe edition to see how different they might be.

Cool program and your right nice to see pics of the road crew in there as without them there is no show. Maiden did the same thing in the Piece of Mind tour book as they featured pics of their road crew. Good to be acknowledged!

I think this is the only one they do it on. The other two I think they list names. I prefer the photos!

That’s a nice collectible! I didn’t get to see Def Leppard until much later in their career. It’s fine with me, though it makes me jealous of those who caught those bands in their prime. I was 12 years old when Hysteria came out. I doubt I knew what live shows were about.

Hysteria was my introduction to the band. As I did with every band I liked back then, I bought the back catalogue.

Ha! Yeah, my first concert was around 15. My parents wouldn’t let me go earlier than that. I am happy I saw them in their prime and several times after that as well.

It is a good album to be introduced to the band. And that back catalog is worth having.

Nice little tour book you have there!

I like it. I keep collecting them so I must.

Nice One of my biggest regrets is not seeing Def Lep live.

You still can. They are still touring (well hopefully will be this Summer at least.

But in Australia they rarely come. They came a few years ago and I was out of the country when they did. Grrr.

That sounds like my luck. Yeah, Australia does get the bands as frequently. That does suck.

Very cool! Did you co-ordinate this one with Mike’s epic Hysteria post?

Nope. Luckily worked out that way.

A co-ordinated attack would have caused some hysteria…

OMG, the puns again. LOL

Extreme cases of hysteria can lead to pyromania. True story.

These are leaving me High & Dry.

With adrenaline, I can keep up the puns on through the night.

If I’d enough medication the euphoria I feel could keep my punning all day and night.

Eventually even that feels like armageddon(it) though.

But I’d enjoy being wasted.

No Foolin’!

No, No, No..I’m not.

I need a Photograph for proof.

“It Don’t Matter” so just “Let It Go”!!

But I’m so Excitable and then I Run Riot.

If you are too Excitable you might take a Rocket in to space on a Satellite!

Where I could meet the gods of war and we could armageddonit!

Man, your “blood runs cold” if you make us all “turn to dust”.

I guess, by then, it’d be too late for love, so you better rock! rock! (til you drop)! 😉

I don’t know, you left me with a big “Scar” after I’ve been “Torn to Shreds” from those “Gods of War” you sent after me.

Now now, don’t go getting stagefright on me, yer comin’ under fire! It’s time for action! Not words… lol

C’mon C’mon, enough already. It is like you are on Cruise Control with these word plays.

I can stop if you like, but it’d leave you high ‘n dry because it’s so much fun, I could do these on through the night!

If you keep it going I will get Wasted with Me And My Wine!!

The would be The The Walls Came Tumbling Down, surely.

They would just Disintegrate and we would be happy To Be Alive

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35 Years Ago: Def Leppard’s Hysteria Tour Hits the United States

Def Leppard 's tour cycle to promote their fourth album, Hysteria , started on Aug. 27, 1987, in Dublin. But an argument could be made that the Hysteria tour did not begin until Oct. 1, when the group unveiled its " In the Round" stage at the Civic Center in Glens Falls, N.Y.

The setup – actually more of a rectangle than a circular stage like Yes used from 1978-80 – was the brainchild of Def Leppard's manager Peter Mensch, who had seen Frank Sinatra do a 360-degree show. The appeal was two-fold: not a bad seat, or at least fewer, in the house; and the ability to sell more tickets than in a normal configuration with the stage on one end of the arena.

And not necessarily in that order. "It's a totally different way to play the show," singer  Joe Elliott told this writer a few weeks into the tour. "It's like you have four front rows to play to. You have people all around you, screaming from every direction. It's pretty wild. ... I think it's great for the band and for the fans."

The setup "made for a spectacular show once we got the feel for it – and it totally affected how we were as performers," guitarist Phil Collen added in his 2015 memoir Adrenalized: Life, Def Leppard and Beyond . "Everyone does it nowadays, but back then it was a novel thing."

The stage was designed by Def Leppard lighting director Phay MacMahon, incorporating a massive rig above the stage that included lasers, a rotating and rising drum riser for Rick Allen and a network of ramps and slopes for Elliot, Collen, guitarist Steve Clark and bassist Rick Savage to navigate. The Hysteria album art was painted on the floor of the stage, while the band emerged at the start of the show from behind a four-sided curtain, also featuring the album art, which disappeared cyclone-like as they kicked into "Stagefright."

Watch Def Leppard Perform 'Stagefright'

"It truly was state-of-the-art," MacMahon said in Collen's book. "It also had a very uncluttered look and feel to it, because all of the guitar techs worked underneath the stage, and all of the guitar amps were also located offstage." The lighting rig, according to MacMahon, "featured many movable parts and lasers that had never been used for concerts before."

The group came to Glens Falls for eight days of rehearsals, following 17 shows at smaller venues in the U.K. and Ireland, and three European festival dates back in June before Hysteria 's release. But working into the new stage wasn't just press-and-play: "It took a minute for us to get used to the set-up," Elliott acknowledged back in 1987. "We'd never done anything like that before. Not many rock bands had. So the first few shows we were trying to fill the stage too much. We were just exhausted. We're really learning how to pace ourselves and not feel like, 'I have to be over there. ... Wait, no, I have to be over there!'"

It was also the first chance for North American audiences to see the new model Allen in action after losing his left arm in a car crash on New Year's Eve 1984. He had taught himself to play on a hybrid drum kit that allowed him to trigger sounds via electronics that would have been created with his left arm with his left foot instead. The kit had wowed European audiences and his bandmates, and would be a focal point for the Hysteria shows in the U.S.

The center-arena staging created one major logistical problem: how to get the band to the stage. The solution was oversized laundry-style carts that Def Leppard's crew would use to move gear belonging to opening acts Tesla and Queensryche off stage. The band members would get into them backstage — Elliott and Clark in one, Collen and Savage in another — and be wheeled to the under-stage area past unsuspecting fans. Allen, who had to warm up before the show, would walk through the crowd in disguise, including a fake left arm holding a beer. In his memoir, Collen recalls that Robert Plant came to check out one of the Chicago concerts in 1988 and volunteered to wheel Collen and Savage's cart that night. "We played extra hard that night, knowing that Robert Plant was watching us," Collen wrote.

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The under-stage area, meanwhile, became something of a bacchanal as the tour went on. Part of Def Leppard's schtick was a 20-minute section of "Rock of Ages" during which Allen would be playing while Elliott hyped the crowds through a call-and-response of the " What do you want? / I want rock 'n' roll " refrain. Collen, Clark and Savage would then retire to below deck, where a party was raging with women who were invited by crew members into the netherworld — if they were willing to disrobe.

"Under the stage, it would be like Sodom and Gomorrah," photographer Ross Halfin said in VH1's " Behind the Music " episode on Def Leppard. "There would be 60 naked girls, and I mean nothing on. They really were the party band. All the bands, Metallica , Motley Crue , think they're so tough. You couldn't touch Def Leppard for it. It's just the fact they hid it really, really well."

All of that was what lay ahead on that first night in Glens Falls. Hysteria endured sluggish performance out of the box so the concert was not sold out, like many of their first-leg shows. Some 5,786 fans turned up in the 7,500-capacity arena. The group nevertheless powered through 15 songs, including five from Hysteria and seven from its predecessor, 1983's multi-platinum Pyromania  — but nothing from the group's 1980 debut, On Through the Night . The ratios would, of course, change as " Pour Some Sugar on Me " rocket-fueled Hysteria 's performance and made Def Leppard shows a hot ticket during 1988 in Europe and North America.

The entire tour played more than 100 dates in North America alone, and the production was preserved on the home video Live: In the Round, In Your Face , filmed at a pair of February 1988 shows in Denver, released in March of 1989 and again in 2001 on DVD. The Hysteria tour wrapped up on Oct. 27, 1988, at the Tacoma Dome in Washington state. That would also be Clark's final performance with the band; the guitarist died  on Jan. 3, 1991, at the age of 30, while on a leave of absence from the band to deal with alcoholism. The cause of death was ruled respiratory failure caused by a mix of alcohol and prescription drugs.

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Hysteria World Tour

• Hysteria World Tour Tour by Def Leppard Hysteria Tour Poster Associated album " Hysteria " Start date 24 June 1987 End date 27 October 1988 No. of shows 236 Def Leppard concert chronology Pyromania World Tour (1983–1984)

The Hysteria World Tour was a concert tour by English hard rock band Def Leppard for their fourth album Hysteria . This was the first tour with drummer Rick Allen since his car accident on 31 December 1984 when he lost his left arm. Allen returned to the band for recording sessions and the tour using a custom designed electronic drum set. It was also the last tour to feature guitarist Steve Clark before his death on 8 January 1991 from alcoholism and a combination of prescription drugs and painkillers. Prior to the start of the European leg in March 1988, the band rented the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden for a week of full production rehearsals.

Many of the dates on the tour were performed "in the round," with the stage and light-rigging set up in the middle of arenas, giving the audience a 360-degree view of the band's performance. [1]

Opening Acts

• McAuley Schenker Group
• Queensryche

First Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Boise, Idaho BSU Pavilion show on 4 December 1987)

• "Stagefright"
• "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)"
• "Another Hit and Run"
• "Billy's Got a Gun"
• " Too Late for Love "
• " Hysteria "
• "Gods of War"
• "Die Hard The Hunter"
• " Bringin' On The Heartbreak "
• " Foolin' "
• " Armageddon It "
• " Pour Some Sugar on Me "
• " Let It Go "
• " Rock of Ages "
• "Don't Shoot Shotgun"
• " Love Bites "
• " Photograph "

Second Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Denver, Colorado McNichols Sports Arena show on 13 February 1988)

• "Tear It Down"
• " Travelin' Band " (originally performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival )

Third Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Nagoya, Japan Century Hall show on 24 May 1988)

Fourth Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Casper, Wyoming Casper Events Center show on 4 July 1988)

Fifth Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Fairgrounds show on 10 August 1988)

Sixth Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Coliseum show on 7 September 1988)

Seventh Typical Setlist

(Taken from the Atlanta, Georgia the Omni show on 7 October 1988)

Touring Personnel

• Joe Elliott – Lead Vocals, Rhythm & Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards
• Phil Collen – Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Steve Clark – Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Rick Savage – Bass, Keyboards, Rhythm & Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Rick Allen – Drums, Backing Vocals
• Michael Moorhead – Laser Special Effects Programmer/Operator

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• Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
• Stagefright
• Too Late for Love
• Gods of War
• Pour Some Sugar on Me
• Bringin' On the Heartbreak
• Guitar Solo

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JOE ELLIOTT On DEF LEPPARD's 'Crossroads' Collaboration With TAYLOR SWIFT: It Still 'Looks' And 'Sounds Great'

Sixteen years ago, DEF LEPPARD teamed up with a teenage Taylor Swift for an episode of CMT 's "Crossroads" . At the time, Taylor was a country music superstar whose songs were just starting to become pop hits. In a new interview with Japanese music critic and radio personality Masa Ito of TVK 's "Rock City" , DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott reminisced about working with the then-18-year-old star. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET ): "It's a strange thing. My kids, who are 14, 7 and 4, have never seen me with Taylor Swift . And I've told them. They didn't believe me. [ Laughs ] Because my kids are Swifties. And they didn't believe that daddy had sung with Taylor Swift . So I had to pull the DVD out and put it on. And they were just like this. [ Opens his mouth wide ]

"I hadn't seen it since 2009 or whatever — [it had been] 15 years since I saw it — and I watched the whole performance, and it was way better than I remembered it being," he admitted. "I didn't think it was bad [at the time], but sometimes things don't age well. This looks great. She looks amazing, she sounds great, the band was on fire, and we played together with her band. So a lot of interesting arrangements came out of that, different textures. It was great to do it differently. But, yeah, we performed [ 'Photograph' ] — in fact, it was the opening track of the show. And it was good fun doing that show. I really enjoyed it, 'cause she got to sing some of ours and I got to sing some of hers. And it was a really interesting week we had together. It was about four days of rehearsals, and then we shot the show twice. They picked the best bits from the two nights.

"Who knew how big she was gonna be?" Elliott continued. "She was popular then, but now she's in a different stratosphere to what she's ever been in before, or most other artists have ever been in. So, we can always look back on that and go, 'Hey, DEF LEPPARD , little old DEF LEPPARD , once got to play with Taylor Swift .'"

Joe previously discussed DEF LEPPARD 's collaboration with Swift in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Asked what signs he saw that this young woman was going to basically conquer the world, Elliott said: "Well, she was already pretty big, so the conquer the world was something that was either gonna happen or wasn't. In fairness, she really did go out, full bore, and conquer the world. Good luck to her for doing that, you know?

"The whole thing came together because somebody walked into our dressing room with a laptop… He goes, 'It's Taylor Swift , she's doing this interview, and she said there was only band that she would ever do a 'Crossroads' with, and it was DEF LEPPARD .' We went, 'Wow, okay, get in touch with her, see what she thinks.' Lo and behold, couple of months go by and, all of a sudden, we're doing this show.

"We've always been that poke-noses-out-of-joint kind of band. I loved the idea of something that's gonna either piss people off or they go, good for you for doing something different. If you're gonna do collaborations, I don't see the point in us doing a song with BON JOVI . Do you know what I mean? It's like, I'd prefer the idea of Jon doing a song with, like, Tom Waits . Us doing something with Loudon Wainwright III or Leonard Cohen . Somebody completely off the wall. Or Elvis Costello and MOTÖRHEAD . Can you imagine what that would sound like?"

Asked how it all worked, Joe said:"Getting hooked in with Taylor was great. She was 17 years old. We were more than willing to do this. We got a new record just out. It was a bit of fun. It was a four-day project. It was two days of rehearsals. It was two shows and everybody did their homework. We turned up knowing all the chords, knowing all the lyrics. There weren't really any difficulties. There were a couple of moments where we sat down, me and Taylor sat down, and she says, 'I can't sing that line,' 'cause it was a bit too risqué, in [ 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' ]. So we'd swap things around. And the fact that I was actually singing from the male point of view in some of her stuff, like in 'Love Story' . As you say, I'm not going to sing something and half-ass it. I'm going to give it my all. Because it doesn't matter. It's a one off project and you've got to sell yourself in the right light. It makes no difference to me whether it's a RAMONES song or a Taylor Swift . I'm gonna do it the best I can."

DEF LEPPARD and JOURNEY will join forces for a summer 2024 North American tour. The 23-date trek will begin on July 6 in St. Louis, Missouri and hit cities including Orlando, Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and more before wrapping in Denver on September 8. Openers include STEVE MILLER BAND , HEART and CHEAP TRICK , which will vary by city.

DEF LEPPARD and MÖTLEY CRÜE have completed several legs of "The World Tour" , which included U.S. dates with Alice Cooper .

DEF LEPPARD 's latest album of all-new material, "Diamond Star Halos" , sold 34,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week of release in May 2022 to land at position No. 10 on the Billboard 200 chart. It marked the band's eighth top 10 LP.

Of "Diamond Star Halos" ' 34,000 units earned for the week, album sales comprised 32,000, SEA units comprised 2,000 (equaling 2.7 million on-demand official streams of the album’s songs) and TEA units comprised less than 500 units.

DEF LEPPARD 's previous Top 10 albums included "Pyromania" (which peaked at No. 2 in 1983), "Hysteria" (No. 1 for six weeks in 1988), "Adrenalize" (No. 1 for five weeks in 1992), "Retro Active" (No. 9; 1983), "Rock Of Ages: The Definitive Collection" (No. 10; 2005), "Songs From The Sparkle Lounge" (No. 5; 2008) and "Def Leppard" (No. 10; 2015).

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• Location / Birmingham, England
• Venue / NEC Arena

The first show by the band in this city since September 1987 on the first UK Hysteria tour.

The first time at this venue and first of two nights here.

The 1987 show had been at the short lived and smaller capacity NEC Forum on the same complex.

This show had been one of the first five dates of the tour to be announced in December 1987. A second night was then added in February 1988 after it had sold out.

The venue is located to the East of the main city centre within the NEC Exhibition Centre complex of venues and halls and close to the Birmingham International Airport.

It was opened in December 1980 and initially known as Hall 7 and then Birmingham International Arena.

From 1983 to 2008 it became the NEC Arena, LG Arena from 2008 to 2014, Genting Arena from 2014 to 2018 and is now the Resorts World Arena.

It was renovated in 2008 to 2009.

A decent audience recording exists from this show.

Read more about this show and tour in the Lep History section.

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• 00 - Dirty Harry/Clint Eastwood Speech
• 01 - Stagefright
• 02 - Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
• 04 - Too Late For Love
• 05 - Hysteria
• 00 - Steve Clark Guitar Solo
• 06 - Gods Of War
• 07 - Die Hard The Hunter
• 08 - Bringin' On The Heartbreak (acoustic/electric)
• 09 - Foolin'
• 10 - Armageddon It
• 11 - Pour Some Sugar On Me
• 00 - Phil Collen Guitar Solo
• 12 - Let It Go
• 13 - Rock Of Ages (Sing-a-Long/Extended Version)
• 14 - Animal
• 15 - Photograph
• View - All Songs Played 1988 / PA Music Info

songs by album

• 1987 - Hysteria - 6
• 1983 - Pyromania - 7
• 1981 - High 'n' Dry - 2
• Tour - Def Leppard Hysteria Tour 1987/1988
• Staging - At One End
• Fan Recorded - Yes (Audio)
• Venue - Website
• Venue Address - Perimeter Road, Birmingham B40 1NT
• English County - West Midlands
• Area Map - Google
• Last Show Here - 11th September 1987
• Capacity - 15,800
• In The Round Show Capacity - n/a
• Attendance - n/a
• Total Gross - n/a
• Ticket Price - £8.00/£7.00
• Show Time - 8pm
• Promoter - M.C.P./Midland Concert Promotions.
• Headliner - Def Leppard
• Support Act - Loverboy

band members

• 01 - Joe Elliott - Lead Vocals
• 02 - Phil Collen - Guitars
• 03 - Steve Clark - Guitars
• 04 - Rick Savage - Bass
• 05 - Rick Allen - Drums

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