Gunter glieben glauchen globen!
That was a long time ago. I would say something but I have no memory from that era.
At least you picked a song before they tried pouring sugar on everything :)
I mean, I love “Hysteria” as much anyone who was young in the ‘80s, but does Def Leppard really deserve to be in a music hall of fame?
Great old memories with this music playing in the background.
I taught Phil Collen and his son how to scuba dive and got the two of them NAUI certified - 17 years ago in Laguna Beach
My memory of those times runs the gamut. Bittersweet is precisely true.
And Johnny Rivers is still left out of the HOF.
Now there’s a band that brings back memories. Practically the soundtrack of my growing up years. Boy were they a huge band when I was about 8-12 years old. Everybody had Hysteria and everybody loved nearly every song. Still can name them. Animal, Rocket, Women, Hysteria, Armageddon, Run Riot, Don’t Shoot Shotgun, on and on. How many times have I heard Pour Some Sugar on me?? Must be thousands. Back when I was a kid, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing these songs.
Having said that, do I think they are a TRULY “great” artistic band? No. By the late 1980’s they were fading and by the early 1990’s they had been flushed from the charts by Nirvana et al and rap. That wasn’t entirely their fault but it does show they did not have the range of ability or depth of talent to compete with other big bands for long-term influence. They were unable to survive the glam rock collapse that they helped define.
Still... those memories! I’ll probably still be listening to Hysteria in the old folks home...