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Def Leppard took the stage with authority, as only a band who has played together for so long can. There is something that grows when a band has been around playing live shows for 24 years; it is not just confidence or experience, a seasoned band hits a critical mass somewhere along the way that their sheer presence and history exceeds that of the individual musicians. As the old saying goes "The whole exceeds the sum of the components", and so it is with Def Leppard.

It was a very emotional night for me. Throughout my teenage years Def Leppard was always there, year after year; a soundtrack to my life. They opened the show with some very old songs from their first album, "On through the night", and although they did mix it up a little by throwing new material from the recent CD at different points, the bulk of the show was damn near in chronological order.

The point of seeing a live show isn't to hear a pristine musical performance; it is the communion, thousands of people being pulled through similar memories and highs and lows by the music we hear. It is infectious. But when you have that connection, and the performance ~is~ that good, then you have something that goes over the top. The songs hit the crowd like a tidal wave, and we fall willingly back and allow ourselves to be pulled along.

By Source Magazine/zippybackflash 2003.

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