Friday, 13th February 2015
Screenshot by dltourhistory
Def Leppard filmed their first ever live concert video In The Round-In Your Face 27 years ago today in Denver, Colorado.
The show was the second of two sold out nights (12th/13th February 1988) at the McNichols Sports Arena where most of the footage/audio used was recorded.
The VHS video was eventually released in September 1989 almost one year after the tour ended. It was later reissued as a two DVD package with Historia in 2002.
Joe Elliott - 1989 Interview Quote
"Well it was done at a gig 'In The Round'. We had great camera men on the shoot. They had worked on Platoon, Apocalypse Now and we had to have guys like that because it's easy to do Frank Sinatra in the round. He don't move - but we do! The director had every conceivable angle covered. He went to the show seven times before they shot it. We shot the first night and he went into a major panic. He said 'I couldn't get anything. It's impossible. You guys keep moving' They had to spend an entire evening altering all their cranes and camera dollies."
"The majority of the film you see is from the second evening. It was difficult to focus on one guy, so the camera work had to be fast moving. That's the way we are on stage. We don't hang around. The majority of it was shot in Denver in February 1988 which was halfway through our tour when we played 227 dates."
Rick Savage - 1993 Interview Quote
"The great thing about 'Pyromania' was that everything was new. With 'Hysteria', there were many parts of it that you'd come to expect, so the novelty had worn off."
"The fact that we were playing in the middle was completely new to us and everybody else, so that made it special. We prided ourselves on doing something that not many people had done before. Whether it's good, bad or indifferent doesn't really matter, as long as it's different."
In The Round-In Your Face - Back Cover Synopsis
Well, here it is - the final piece of the 'Hysteria' puzzle (so to speak). First the album, then the 227 date world tour, then the 'Historia' video collection and now a movie of 2 great nights in Denver (with a little help from 3 equally great nights in Atlanta).
We hope you enjoy this film as much as we enjoyed playing this show. Playing in the middle of the arena was a challenge for us every night as well as a challenge for Wayne Isham who directed this concert movie. No one had ever quite dealt with this setup before! For those of you who missed the show, fear not, it shall return in the near future (with a couple of modifications). Until then, enjoy 'In The Round - In Your Face'.
- Def Leppard - Denver 1988 Show Page
- Def Leppard - Hysteria Tour 1987/1988
- Previous News - 7th February 2015