On This Day In Def Leppard History - 5th October 2017

On This Day in Def Leppard History - 5th October, the following concerts and events took place. Including the Def Leppard Day events in Sheffield, England 22 years ago on this day in 1995.

Events included the opening of the National Centre For Popular Music, plaques being unveiled at Crooke's Workingmen's Club and Don Valley Stadium and an acoustic concert at The Wapentake club.

Read more about this event/live show anniversary.

Also on this day in 1993 the 'Retro-Active' compilation/rarities album was released in US/CAN a day after the UK/World release. It went on to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Top 200 chart.

Read more about this album release anniversary.

The band continue the 2017 Tour tonight in Guadalajara, Mexico which is being played for the first time (after two previous cancellations in 1993/2005). Check back later for the setlist.

As of 2017, Def Leppard (will) have played 10 times on this date.

Use the previous news links to go back through each day in history to June 2011.

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