![]() ![]() ![]() ‘God Save The Queen’ is still my ringtone now!” “Young, vigorous and very tight” Pistols were the most wonderful thing I’d heard in years. “I loved it when punk came out and kicked everyone’s arse. “, rock had got really overblown – really boring, people droning on with guitar solos,” Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen told Record Collector in 2018. Counting Crows Recruit Dashboard Confessional For ‘Banshee Season Tour’.‘Electriclarryland’: How the Butthole Surfers Scored an Unlikely Hit.Mike Gordon From Phish Shares ‘Tilting,’ Announces ‘Flying Games’.First coined by Sounds journalist Geoff Barton in May 1979, the NWOBHM banner collectivized a group of fast-rising, grassroots-level UK rock acts (also including Iron Maiden, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Saxon, and Diamond Head) whose sound reflected their love of classic 70s hard rock outfits such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Thin Lizzy, but infused it with the energy and vitality of punk. The deal that led to On Through The Night’s release, on March 14, 1980, came through Def Leppard’s connection with the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. ![]() It may not have the critical or commercial cachet of their landmark titles Pyromania and Hysteria, but Def Leppard’s 1980 debut, On Through The Night, effectively captured the band’s confident initial strides on a remarkable journey which has led to over 100 million record sales worldwide and induction into the hallowed Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. ![]()
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