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By Leslie Streete

Maybe there's something magical being pumped into the air on the collective tour buses of '80s rock monsters Journey and Def Leppard. Or maybe it's something they're drinking, or perhaps there's a collection of bleeding, aging portraits of the band members stashed in a forgotten closet with some old amps and some vintage Leppard Union Jack tees.

Def Leppard, that high-flying British band with the obvious glam tendencies, have a new album called Yeah that covers their favorite British '70s glam classics by Sweet (Hell Raiser) and Badfinger (No Matter What), and they did impressively loud and tuneful versions of those. Hell Raiser, the opener, was a wee loud, drowning out singer Joe Elliott's impassioned yell.

But it was the Leppard classics that the people seemed to want to hear, and they were in evidence - the gleefully cheesy Let's Get Rocked and Make Love Like a Man were faithfully recreated, as was the balladish Hysteria. When you see a show like this, you want the guys to sound like they used to. You wanna rock. And Def Leppard and Journey both more than delivered.

By Palm Beach Post 2006.

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