LP02812

UPC: 5756092
Release Date: 2017-08-04

Hysteriais the fourth studio album by EnglishrockbandDef Leppard, released on 3 August 1987,[4]byMercury Records. The album is the follow-up to the band’s 1983 breakthrough,Pyromania.Hysteria‘s creation took over three years and was plagued by delays, including the aftermath of drummerRick Allen’s accident that cost him his left arm on 31 December 1984.[5]Subsequent to the album’s release, Def Leppard published a book titledAnimal Instinct: The Def Leppard Story, written byRolling Stonemagazine senior editorDavid Fricke, on the three-year recording process ofHysteriaand the difficult times the band endured through the mid-1980s. Lasting 62 minutes and 32 seconds, it is the band’s longest studio album to date.