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By Anne Cumming

Def Leppard plays to crowd of 13,810 at Greeley Stampede - Laura Schott walked into Saturday's night's Def Leppard concert, looked around and told her husband, "Tonight, we are officially old."

When Laura, 30, listened to Def Leppard, she was 16, had big 1980s hair and popped the band's tapes into car cassette players and head-banged to the music with her friends. "Back then the music didn't seem that loud," she said with a laugh. "It seems loud now."

The Greeley Independence Stampede concert drew 13,810 people Saturday night, one of the largest crowd in Stampede concert history. The crowd was screaming before Def Leppard even took the stage about 9:15 p.m.

The heavy-metal rock band, which made its debut playing at a school in England in 1978, opened Saturday's show with "Let it Go", "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" and "Make Love Like a Man".

The crowd went wild and held up lighters during "Foolin,'" from the band’s 1983 album "Pyromania."

The Groove Hawgs, a band formed in 1997 by Denver radio personalities Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax, opened for Def Leppard with a mixture of rock and blues. A lot of concert-goers were like the Schotts - 30-somethings with kids and houses in the suburbs who came because they remember Def Leppard’s music from junior high and high school.

By Greeley Tribune 2003.

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