Def Leppard The Story of Adrenalize MTV 1992

Originally broadcast on MTV in 1992 this particular version was also shown on Def Leppard Sunday on the 24th Jan 1993 on MTV.

[@bwm5150]

Ah, great to see this again, It's been many many years! Always fascinating to hear thoughts and opinions from the time. Thanks for sharing again Andy!

[@adamwood7597]

It’s always great watching stuff like this. I’ve probably watched over 100 times. Il watch it again like it’s my first.

[@professorsargeanthikesclim9293]

Love the analyses you do and covers. (This is a different account than you've seen me comment from.)

[@starboy3741]

Man this interview is great adrenalzie is one of my favorite albums

[@Banjo_McBanj]

RIP Steve. Wish you managed to get the help you needed and were still here 😢

[@chriskitchen4772]

Unfortunately you have to want the help. Some people don't and/or can't.

[@JIF882]

​@chriskitchen4772 exactly. I remember on Behind The Music Joe telling a story of visiting Steve in rehab. Joe was telling Steve that he has to get clean, but Steve just kept picking his nails

[@donnahoward6593]

I agree. What a shame. He is still my favorite😢

[@jdooris83]

@@JIF882and not listening to what Joe was saying, basically trying to get Steve to snap out out of what he was going through but sadly not. But then checked out of rehab, went to a pub got drunk and then fell down. It’s such a sad time

[@markraney5150]

I’ll never forget the news of Steve passing. My senior year in high school MTV News I was crushed

[@500erider]

Same here. Senior year. It was devastating news. Heard the news on my alarm radio, when it woke me up on that school morning. I'm still not over it, and the band has never been the same.

[@MikeRambo]

Same with me as well.

[@jefferypresnell4368]

When Steve died I was working cleaning a restaurant after closing, I heard the news over the radio that nite. All of a sudden I got the worst feeling that they'd be no more Def Leppard. Now I felt concern for the man's soul too. I realized both of the guitarist that made my band were gone. Today, Phil and Viv are doing a great job. But man, what would've been. ROCK ON.

[@Crazypapa95]

Very sad indeed. We all miss Steve.

[@theresa5818]

What a lovely set of lads . It's gr8 how they are such a tight unit as well as an awesome band x

[@robinstevens9189]

This is great to watch. Rare finds from the past that I've never seen before.

[@kaybright2539]

Thank you for posting ❤ def leppard they stuck together through good and bad times 👋🐆🇬🇧👍

[@TheWhiteLightning]

Had not seen this one before. Thank you for sharing Andy.

[@sakisnikas6691]

That brings back precious memories. Thanks for sharing it, Andy! "Adrenalize" is a masterpiece!

[@annekennett9690]

What a grate album thank you Def leppard for posting this my favourite song s on this are heaven is stand up kick love into motion 💕 love you guys ♥️❤️💯💕💕💕💕💕♥️❤️♥️❤️♥️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘

[@Knight5533]

“Grate” ??? Lmao. Like a cheese grater?

[@pj7342]

They are amazingly consistent in their message year after year.

[@Eva-cy6kc]

I'm so glad I found these guys when I was 12! Best band ever 🖤

[@whataboutrob442]

They were in from 80-83.

[@Mujcanal]

Thank you for this gem !

[@neilpoole3755]

Thanks for posting this Andy. Blast from the past. I not only remember watching this at the time but recording it and compiling with all other Adrenalize era Leps on the tv at time on a VHS.

[@nickthompson4978]

It’s nice to the see the making of an album like this

[@lorishaw8357]

Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️, love watching an listening to Def Leppard 🎶💋🎸🎸🎶.

[@chriskitchen4772]

Great stuff. Some terrific songs on that album. A goodbye to Steve's playing. Thanks.

[@demostenesiracheta9362]

Thank for sharing.

[@cindyeverette4326]

Ppl need to know Steve is not gone his love for his brothers and the thrill of the 🎵🎶🎵🎶 I he doing his part getting Def Leppard the Best is Yet 😮🎉❤ to Come History in the Making Rock & Roll will Always have Angels among Us 😎🎵🎶🎵😎♥️😎🎵🎶🎶🎵😎🎸🎵🎶♥️

[@24theMoney]

Awesome stuff...my favorite era for the band.

[@tarastebleton4022]

I like this rock group they made really great songs and I have some of their CDs and I listen to them all the time I'm sorry to hear what happened to Steve it's sad that they lost him and I hope he RIP

[@jamesalcock3060]

Brilliant album, holds a special place in my teenage memories

[@ethanbarc]

Amazing 🤩

[@cindyeverette4326]

Always a DGB always to me they feel 🎵🎶 what they perform

[@BunnieBaumayr-zl3wm]

Love this video

[@PeaveyPV20]

Brill watch. Its amazing how this album was even made due to all the upheaval in the band but the album still sounded brill

[@Susan-d8k1q]

Aloha oh my heart ya ROCK. Let’s Get Rocked❤

[@richs2290]

Great stuff thanks for sharing ✌️😀😀

[@diegoximenes8011]

I LIKED THE VIDEO THIS IS MY FAVORITE BAND

[@mikeauer2746]

Steve Clark...my ultimate guitar hero forever...

[@lateramae]

I wonder if Joe still has those black leather pants with the red stars! But yeah, highly underrated album! "Tonight," "White Lightning," "Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)," and "I Wanna Touch U" are fantastic. And props to them for finishing the record as a four-piece out of respect for Steve!

[@nothx962]

He does, I saw him at Starbucks and he was running around in them. They a little tight now.

[@kylev5602]

It’s funny that they are talking like aged veterans and Joe says he was feeling old at age 30. They just headlined a stadium here a couple weeks ago and drew a huge crowd. 32 years after this interview! Never in my life would I have guessed as a teenager that this music would still be around 30-40 years later.

[@gordonm2821]

Rick looks so young!

[@TonyM132]

Andrenalize is by far the most under-rated Leppard album in my opinion. It is my second favorite after Hysteria! It's their only other album besides Hysteria to reach #1, and the only one to debut at #1. Sadly and for reasons I don't understand, Adrenalize has recently been neglected more and more by the band.

[@Susan-g6w]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@edwardcarroll8206]

Great band very harmonic band

[@chadhero37]

Hysteria is a hard album to follow

[@austincooper4508]

14:47 really the only time we get to hear a part of Stand Up live.

[@AndyLGR]

If you want to hear some of Stand Up “live” take a look at the Rock of Ages Def Leppard Story on my channel just before the 36 minute mark.

[@austincooper4508]

@@AndyLGRI’ve heard it. Wish we could hear the full demo

[@toriackley8402]

I couldn’t listen to Def Leppard for a long time after Steve died I just couldn’t image him not being here :(

[@edwardcarroll8206]

Steve I miss you

[@Ayselinepacheconavarro]

Handsomes!

[@JIF882]

I never thought before that the album had traces of High N Dry, but i hear it in Personal Property

[@TenMinutesLyne]

Are you having a laugh.

[@JIF882]

@@TenMinutesLyne no

[@camaro02girl]

Love white lightning

[@johnadams3053]

When Love and Hate Collide (with Steve) should’ve replaced Tonight, the electric version of Miss You In A Heartbeat should’ve replaced Stand Up, and Fractured Love Should’ve been on the album. Then it would’ve been the best album they ever recorded.

[@bb-gc2tx]

they got this album in just under the wire before grunge really took hold and ruined everything

[@rattandroll2010]

& grunge turned out to be a fart in a hurricane.

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@rattandroll2010 so true hair metal is still apart of pop culture and remembered more fondly while grunge is largely forgotten.

[@chriskitchen4772]

Things are always changing as much as I like 70's and 80's rock. I don't think grunge ruined anything, just a progression.

[@fettergraf]

Grunge is one of the best things that happened to Rock music

[@rattandroll2010]

@@fettergraf 😂😂😂😂😂

[@elbeltrano]

22 years ago!!??? 👴🏽👴🏽👴🏽👴🏽👴🏽

[@needham831]

32 years. 🧓😂

[@Susan-g6w]

Hey Phil

[@liamwashburn234]

wtf is rick allen’s haircut 😭😭

[@Swanlord05]

Dude got a jamacian black wife

[@chabomorphosis]

I say everybody I know and knows Def Leppard that I prefer ¨Adrenalize¨ more than ¨Hysteria¨ and they look me like I'm fuckin' crazy. "Adrenalize" it's too "Pop-ie"they say... then I look at them like they're fuckin nuts. A super ignorate commentary... I just want to say this: Better than "Hysteria".

[@BunterHiden66]

This was the beginning of the end. I remember being so disappointed in the album when it was released. Shorter songs, horrible lyrics, and even more poppier song structures too... Some of the songs even sounded like Bryan Adams! White lightning is the only song on the album worth it's salt...... It was like, we waited 5 years for THIS? It's funny hearing them say at the time that this was a "heavier" album than Hysteria...lol. really? None of these songs remain in the setlist today, except for let's get rocked, which is probably the most brain dead song ever recorded by A hard Rock band.

[@AveragePotatoEnjoyerr]

For what it's worth - I'm a relatively newer fan. Growing up, I heard photograph and/or pour some sugar on me once in a while on the radio, but I hadn't really discovered Def Leppard until I came up through High School a few years back. I heard Mirror Mirror from their High 'n Dry album for the first time, allowing me to discover more of their discography. I must say Adrenalize is the turning point in their career like you mentioned being "poppier" but after giving it some more listening, a lot of songs became more appealing to me. I think Retro Active is where I draw the line. I bought every album (not including their E.P.) on CD but just couldn't get behind anything after Adrenalize. What I think this album does best - that the consecutive albums don't - is what Rick describes here (1:45). You also have to consider the loss of Steve in the final production. All in all, I agree that this album may come off as disappointing as somebody anticipating a new DL album after Hysteria, but from my perspective I think it was a great tribute from how far the band had come (and I would give it another chance).

[@openmindist]

100% truth

[@mikeauer2746]

They lost the leppard punch after Steve died. He was the main songwriter, and after he passed, they had to go it alone. He was called the riffmaster for a reason

[@whataboutrob442]

Phil switching to Randall amps was a huge reason their sound went to shit. After Pyromania they went straight down. Without Steve they lost their soul. Even though I didn't care for Hysteria, it still had Steve and that DL thing to it.

[@THOUGHTCRIME_No1]

@whataboutrob442 I don't know whether changing amp gear made a lot of difference but for sure the electronic drum kit sounded awful. I figure Clarke and Willis contributed the main song ideas, at least the good ones. The first three albums were great and then it got worse with every album. Adrenalize was already pretty lame amd boring.

[@thomasrusso9642]

It still sounds like def leppard

[@thomasrusso9642]

Ok so you elbow better songs

[@craigsibson6541]

I bet Vivian Campbell from Dio and Thin Lizzy joins the band. He'd be perfect. Always wanted to do a back to the future moment.

[@FranschK]

Adrenalize was a good album however it came with the wrong timming. If Adrenalize would have been issued in 1990 it would have been almost double of sales and popularity by now. However march 1992 there was already too much depressive, doom and "everything sucks" kind of music that adrenalize humor and poppy uplifting music was not well received by young fans and new generations. Bad timming. Of course missing our beloved steve is very noticeable. My fav songs of the album is white lightning and i wanna touch u and stand up, I hate make love like a man song

[@GNewcomb-q9v]

It came out at the right time! There was no way they could have released it in 90 due to Steve’s problems! The reason I said I came out at the right time in 92 was simply due to the music scene was already dogging down in grunge & alternative! It was a breath of fresh air”fresh air” so to say! As far as sales numbers, it would not have sold better in 90 either! It’s the last good album they put out but people were wanting Hysteria part 2 in 90, this album is clearly not part 2! I think the sales figures would have been lower! Let’s Get Rocked was a more return to early 80’s Lep compared to Hysteria! That alone would have kept sales lower in 90 than in 92! I was in high school when this album came out & had a friend, (who’s mom worked at the local music store) pick it up for me the morning it came out! I had it in hand at 8 am that day! Couldn’t wait to get it home & hear good music again!

[@blondiegirl5460]

Stand up kick love into motion is one of my favorites

[@mikesmouse7779]

Crumbs this was back in the days before Joe Elliot became an old lady!

[@chriskitchen4772]

Great stuff. Some terrific songs on that album. A goodbye to Steve's playing. Thanks.