Def Leppard Hysteria - making of
(last updated: dd/mm/yy) Def Leppard’s Hysteria – making of February 1984 : After wrapping up their successful Pyromania tour in Bangkok, Def Leppard set up shop to Dublin for tax reasons, where they started writing and pre-production for what became Hysteria . Over the next six months, they each demoed multiple riffs and ideas onto 4-track cassette recorders from which they’d assemble proper songs – these included “Animal”, “Armageddon It”, “Don’t Shoot Shotgun”, “Excitable” among a few. Producer Mutt Lange, who worked on the band’s last two albums, also joined in for some of the writing, but later informed them he couldn’t produce it due to burnout from prior projects. 11 August – late October 1984 : The infamous recording sessions with producer Jim Steinman and engineer Neil Dorfsman at Wisseloord Studios (Hilversum, Netherlands). It has been well documented that Steinman’s standards were not as high as the band’s. Joe : “[Steinman] wouldn’t adapt and we wouldn’t comprom...