Allentown, PA - Media Review Quotes

By Tom Davis

When the audience heard the opening guitar chords of "Rock Rock (Till You Drop)," from the band's breakthrough "Pyromania" album, lighters popped open, and many of the 8,555 people thrust their hands in the air, gesturing the two-fingered heavy metal salute.

"Allllentown!" shouted lead singer Joe Elliot, one of two members who have been with the band since its start 20 years ago.

"We are Def Leppard, and this is what we do!"

Two muscular men in their 30s danced to the band's pounding, menacing "Women" from the band's most successful album, "Hysteria."

Others high-fived when they heard the opening electric strings of "Too Late for Love," again from "Pyromania."

By The Morning Call 1999.

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