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By Caroline Vigeant
The British group Def Leppard has triggered "hysteria" at the Bell Center for the fifth time since 2003, when it sounded its glam metal Monday to mark the 30th anniversary of the cult album "Hysteria" in front of more than 10,000 people.
True to his habit, singer Joe Elliott hailed the Montreal crowd in French. The quintet that has evolved in the musical landscape for forty years has offered a colorful spectacle, to resume a formula oiled, but that could not be more suitable for this second stoppage of the North American tour, begun Saturday. Multicolored projections shattered on the background screen, the scene was bathed in luminous jets just as flashy as the well-oiled pectorals of guitarist Phil Collen.
By TVA Nouvelles 2017 - read the French original via the link.
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By Marie-Josée Roy
Def Leppard's guys can not be accused of lacking generosity. Third concert in Montreal in five years (after 2012 and 2015), not to mention stopovers in Quebec in 2013 and 2016. No hit forgotten in a performance of one hour thirty without shortness of breath, a lot of visual candy and a complicity to break everything with A parterre more than enthusiastic.
You know, Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Phil Collen and the company are disembarking at the Bell Center, a place they know well, on Monday, to get back in touch with a crowd with which they are just as familiar and almost revered. The pretext? The release of their last eponymous opus, two years ago, and whose songs Let's Go, Dangerous and Man Enough were heard during the evening.
By Huffingtonpost Quebec 2017 - read the French original via the link.
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By Caroline Vigeant
Not only have we dragged the classics of High'n'Dry and Pyromania , but also three songs from the eponymous album released in 2015 - Let's Go, Dangerous and Man Enough - which did not detract so much from the sound Of the y group is unchanged.
By Journal de Montreal 2017 - read the French original via the link.
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By Jordan Zivitz
The frontman gave every band member his due, accompanying them to the lip of the catwalk or, in drummer Rick Allen’s case, bowing down before the grinning face on the rear-stage Jumbotron. The perception of Def Leppard as a band of brothers was reinforced by the vintage video clips that backed Hysteria, the set’s emotional high water mark. Rather than being burdened by their history, the musicians seemed empowered by it.
The audience of roughly 11,000 matched his zeal and then some. When Elliott said “this city has been a major supporter of this band over the years,” you got the feeling it wasn’t part of his usual repartee. Even the usual repartee carried extra weight: “Until next time … and there will be a next time,” he vowed during the curtain call, as he has done before. Believe him.
By Montreal Gazette 2017.
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By Laurent Lépine
Finally came Def Leppard . Not being a finished fan of this English band, I really did not expect anything. But to change their last visit to Montreal, I was surprised to see myself get up (to the chagrin of the people behind me), dance, and even sing.
By Daily Rock 2017 - read the French original via the link.
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By Kieron Yates
“Lets Go” kicked off the final portion of the night, with Def Leppard taking the stage to a now packed house of roughly eleven thousand spectators in attendance. Playing many of the groups hits as well as a few lesser known ditties – and a cover! David Essex’s “Rock On”. Some of the highlights on the night came by way of “Foolin’” and “Love Bites” (sure does, maaaan!), “Bringin’ On The Heartbreak”, “Hysteria”, “Let’s Get Rocked” and “Pour Some Sugar On Me”. All sounding dead on despite the time that has elapsed since these tunes were first written and performed. Age wasn’t something that the audience was reflective of, though.
Front-man Joe Elliott too was feeling the ages, eluding to this being the fortieth anniversary of the band. “It crept up on us” he joked, and even if his vocal range isn’t quite what it was, it is still fantastic and damned near perfect. Def Leppard put on a quality show, with great lighting and a fantastic video montage of photographs of the band throughout the years – as an avid photography nerd, this plastered a gigantic grin on my clock. Many of the shots I recognized as being the works of one of my concert photography idols – one mister Ross Halfin. (Seriously, check him out!) And of course, the encore concluded with “Rock Of Ages” (which now makies me think of Tom Cruse every single time I hear it) and… “Photograph”. I can’t remember a Def Leppard show that didn’t end with that particular song.
By Montreal Rocks 2017.
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