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By Aimsel L. Ponti

After Tesla opened the show with an impressive 45-minute set laden with their own hits, Def Leppard took over just before 9. Elliott walked on stage in black leather pants and a sleeveless button-down shirt and did what he's done thousands of times before, picked up his microphone stand and went to work.

Tearing into "Action" and then "Let's Get Rocked," DL lit up the room with their tight playing, signature power harmonies and songs that were born in the '80s. Four songs in they played "Foolin' " That's when I decided to take out my earplugs and join the living.

Old footage of the band was projected on a large screen behind the stage and we saw flashes of some pretty scary haircuts.

Worthy of note are the two cover songs that Def Leppard played. First was Badfinger's "No Matter What," which is on the "Rock of Ages" collection as a teaser for the all-covers record coming out sometime this fall. The other was another '70s gem, David Essex's "Rock on." Both were hits with the audience.

By Maine Today 2005.

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