Listen to Def Leppard Perform 'Rock of Ages' He later told Classic Rock that “Photograph” and the follow-up singles “Rock of Ages” and “Foolin’” received so much airplay that he “turned the radio off ‘cause I got sick of hearing us every 20 minutes!” However, it also put Elliott through a couple of careful-what-you-wish-for moments. I think the first time you make it and the first time you go platinum, double platinum and quadruple platinum, it’s unbelievable just how everything changes around you, even though you’re exactly the same.”įor singer Joe Elliott, the tour featured the highest highs and lowest lows of his career up to that point. "So the whole thing, I don’t want to say it was like a blur, because I remember all of it, but it was probably the most exciting period of the whole career. . “We were really good as a band by the time we finished the Pyromania tour," he told UCR in 2013. So that was a very exciting, very strange period.” “It’s never really been like that since then.
“That was really exciting, to go from no one knowing who you are to getting mobbed and escorted out of a restaurant, stuff like that,” he said. He and Steve complement each other really well because they have contrasting styles.”Ĭollen recalled his debut appearance at the tour warm-up show at London’s Marquee Club, noting that the Jack Murphy Stadium concert had taken place less than a year later. And with him being more jazz-rock-oriented, he does have a stronger background of chords and what have you. Occasionally he tries to see how many notes he can put in a five-second solo. “Phil is more jazz-rock oriented than Pete ever was,” Savage reflected at the time. It was also their first album with guitarist Phil Collen, who’d replaced Pete Willis partway through the recording. That is when hype will work in your favor, because when you're hot, you're hot.”Ĭontributing to that heat was a 17-song set that usually included six tracks from their latest LP: "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop),” "Photograph,” “Foolin’,” "Rock of Ages,” "Billy's Got a Gun" and ”Stagefright.” Pyromania had marked a move away from their heavy metal beginnings and, with the help of producer John Robert “Mutt” Lange, their move toward a hard rock sound that blended pop with as many other influences as they could fit in. “Looking back, and hearing old mixing-desk tapes, we were fucking atrocious most of the time! For some reason, though, it didn't really matter.
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“From a professional point of view, it was probably one of the best times of our lives,” bassist Rick Savage said later. At that point, the band reported, Pyromania was selling 100,000 copies a day in the United States and kept off the No.1 spot by Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The second-to-last show took place at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, with Eddie Money, Uriah Heep and rising stars Motley Crue in support, and 55,000 fans in attendance.
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