Def Leppard - VH-1 Storytellers, VH-1 Storytellers Studio, New York City, 7-26-1999

Here's another "VH-1 Storytellers" episode. This time, it's the hard rock band Def Leppard.

I just posted the Duran Duran Storytellers album a few minutes ago, and the fortunes of Def Leppard were quite similar to that band at this point in their career, in my opinion. Like Duran Duran, they were massively popular in the 1980s. Two of them albums from that decade sold over 10 million copies each in the U.S. alone. They've sold over 100 million albums worldwide overall. 

But while they had some success in the 1990s, particularly the early 1990s, they struggled with changing musical tastes, especially the rise of grunge over hard rock. The album they released at the time of this concert, "Euphoria," had the lowest sales of any of their albums so far, only going gold in the U.S. The band is still together as I write this in 2024, but they've had less success, with no more albums even going gold.

That said, their 1999 album "Euphoria" was seen as a return to form, as they went back to their original sound after struggling with new styles in an attempt to stay relevant. Three of the songs here, "Promises," "Demolition Man," and "Goodbye," are from that album. 

Weirdly, this episode is a rare case of not having only part of the first song included. So I didn't have to do any fixing for that. But the lead vocals were rather low in the mix, so I boosted them using the UVR5 audio editing program.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 talk (Def Leppard)
02 Armageddon It (Def Leppard)
03 talk (Def Leppard)
04 Pour Some Sugar on Me (Def Leppard)
05 talk (Def Leppard)
06 Two Steps Behind (Def Leppard)
07 talk (Def Leppard)
08 Hysteria (Def Leppard)
09 talk (Def Leppard)
10 Promises (Def Leppard)
11 talk (Def Leppard)
12 Demolition Man (Def Leppard)
13 talk (Def Leppard)
14 Rock of Ages (Def Leppard)
15 talk (Def Leppard)
16 Goodbye (Def Leppard)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17167415/DEFLPPRD1999StrytllrsStrytllrsStdoNwYrkC__7-26-1999_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sRwakPeC

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. I picked this scene to show how the band performed semi-acoustic for some of the songs.

UPDATE: On September 26, 2024, I updated the image, sharpening it with the program Krea AI.