[ Def Leppard UK - Monsters Of Rock 1986 ]
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[SETLIST]
[01] - Phil Collen Guitar Intro, [02] - Stagefright, [03] - Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop), [04] - Another Hit & Run (Extended), [05] - Too Late For Love, [06] - Love and Affection, [07] - Photograph, [08] - Let It Go, [09] - Run Riot, [10] - Rock Of Ages (Medley), [11] - Wasted, Encore: [12] - Travellin' Band, ------------------------------- [Pic Galleries] - 1 [Venue Pic Link] - 1 [Show Recording] - Donington 1986 [Capacity] - 80,000. [Attendance] - 60,000+. [Tickets] - £14. [Return Of] - The Thundergod. [Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster] - Info |
SAT 16th Aug 1986: MOR Festival: Donington Park, Derby, ENGLAND. 
[Main Gallery] - 12 Pics by Ross Halfin/1 by Pete Cronin/1 AD scan by DLUK.com. [Show Notes] - Line-Up was Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Def Leppard, Motörhead, Bad News, Warlock. A historic gig back in England for the band. The first high-profile show with Rick on his own again. Guests backstage included Lars Ulrich and Brian May. The audience recording is a good one although Rick's intro during ROA was sadly cut out. Rick's first show back in front of a huge audience after the small Irish warm-up shows. The bands families also attended the show. Phil features in the documentary made by spoof band Bad News, filmed backstage during the day. The rock and roll medley during ROA featured (Not Fade Away/My Generation/Radar Love/Come Together/Whole Lotta Love). |
Setlists - Other Bands
[Ozzy Osbourne-Headliner] - Intro/Bark At The Moon, Suicide Solution, (You) Never Know Why (We Rock), Mr. Crowley, Shot In The Dark, I Don't Know, Killer of Giants, solo: Jake E Lee, Thank God For The Bomb, Flying High Again, Secret Loser, Drum solo: Randy Castillo, Iron Man, Crazy Train, Encore: Paranoid, Goodbye To Romance.
[Scorpions] - Intro/Coming Home, Blackout, Bad Boys Running Wild, Loving You Sunday Morning, Make It Real, Big City Nights, Coast To Coast, Still Loving You, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Can't Live Without You, Another Piece of Meat, Dynamite, Encore: The Zoo, Can't Get Enough.
[Motörhead] - Iron Fist, Stay Clean, Nothing Up My Sleeve, Metropolis, Doctor Rock, Killed By Death, Ace Of Spades, Steal Your Face, Bite The Bullet, Built For Speed, Orgasmatron, No Class, Motorhead, Bomber, Overkill.
Media Review - Howard Johnson
So this was it huh? This is what we waited three years for? This was the act which Phonogram had billed as 'simply the world's greatest rock band'? This was the all-conquering return? Well, I'm sorry to be a party pooper, but Def Leppard were absolutely, thoroughly average.
Now there's no denying the power and prowess of 'Pyromania', there's no denying the band's extraordinary stateside success, there's no denying that Def Leppard have made a hell of a lot of dough out of this business (which at the end of the day is what it's all about!). What I am questioning is whether Def Leppard are actually a band that is worth seeing live. On the evidence of Donington, hardly the best place to make a judgement, the answer would have to be no.
Take away the horrendous sound problems, take away the obvious problems of Rick Allen having to play with one arm (a helluva brave guy!), and you're still left with the fact that Def Leppard are really rather ordinary these days.
The Leps have got a problem. The superlative Mutt Lange production on 'Pyromania' necessarily results in those songs sounding lame in comparison when viewed live and naked. Even the classic 'Photograph' sounded as if it were limping rather than sprinting majestically.
Problematical to be sure, but not as worrying as the two new songs bestowed upon us. 'Don't give me Love and Affection' and 'Run Riot'. Well it says it all, doesn't it? Standard rock songs that would've been nothing special if they'd been written in a week, never mind three years! You can fool all of the people, etc etc.
Leppard tried hard to win the punters over. They worked diligently at their craft and tried to please, but it wasn't enough. Filling out 'Rock Of Ages' with snippets of old classics such as 'Radar Love', 'Not Fade Away' and 'My Generation'
seemed to be less good time and more desperation, not the stuff that the 'world's greatest rock band' should be made of.
Howard Johnson © Kerrang! Issue 128 1986.
Show Story - from Animal Instinct
Leppard didn't bother with a formal introduction. As Steve Clark explains, "We were playing in broad daylight. We didn't have any big lights or effects. We hadn't dressed up for it either. We just went out there and rock and rolled for each other. If anybody else liked it, great."
Joe went into his familiar repertoire of Mick Jagger-Gary Glitter poses while Phil and Steve turned on the guitar-heat Aerosmith style, jagged zig-zag riffs punctuated by fireball burst of feedback. At one point in the set, Steve slipped around the back line of ampifiers, snuck up behind Phil and gave him a wicked kick in the caboose.
The crowd's response was better than Leppard had ever expected. During the encore, while Rick was taking a brief drum break, Phil suggested to Joe that he give Rick a special introduction, something he hadn't done on any of the Irish shows. "So I went out after he was done and said 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Rick Allen on the drums.' You could have knocked me over with a feather. The cheering was so loud they practically blew us off stage. I mean, they were louder than we were. I could barely hear Rick because of the big waves of 'YEAH' which rolled over the stage.".
It was an especially poignant victory for Rick. Before the tour, Ozzy Osbourne had told Peter Mensch that putting Rick on display for fifty thousand headbangers amounted to nothing more than a freak show. At the end of the Monsters of Rock tour, Ozzy paid a visit to Rick's hotel room and took back every word he said.
© Zomba Books 1987.
Review Quotes
[Sounds] - "Their sound was pristine...and the clean cut razor edged hooks which line their classy and almost sophisticated metal took the place by storm.
[Melody Maker] - "Americanized monotony merchants."