Pyromania (album)

Pyromania
Studio album by Def Leppard
Publication (s)	January 20, 1983
admission	January – November 1982
Label (s)	Mercury Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Hard rock , heavy metal
Title (number)	10
running time	44:57
occupation	Singing: Joe Elliott Guitar: Steve Clark Guitar: Phil Collen Guitar: Pete Willis Bass: Rick Savage Drums: Rick Allen
production	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Studio (s)	Park Gates Studio in Battle, East Sussex (England) Battery Studios, London (England)
chronology High 'n' Dry (1981) Pyromania Hysteria (1987)

Pyromania (English for: " Pyromanie " (arson instinct)) is the third studio album by the British hard rock band Def Leppard . Like the previous album, it was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange .

background

The previous guitarist Pete Willis was kicked out of the band during the recording because of his excessive alcohol consumption and replaced by Phil Collen . That's why all of the rhythm guitar tracks were recorded by Pete Willis.

Track list

1. Rock Rock (Till You Drop) (Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott) - 3:52
2. Photographer (Steve Clark, Pete Willis, Rick Savage, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott) - 4:12
3. Stagefright (Rick Savage, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) - 3:46
4. Too Late for Love (Steve Clark, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Pete Willis, Rick Savage, Joe Elliott) - 4:30
5. Die Hard the Hunter (Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Joe Elliott) - 6:17
6. Foolin ' (Steve Clark, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott) - 4:32
7. Rock of Ages (Steve Clark, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott) - 4:09
8. Comin 'Under Fire (Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Steve Clark, Pete Willis, Joe Elliott) - 4:20
9. Action! Not Words (Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Steve Clark, Joe Elliott) - 3:49
10. Billy's Got a Gun (Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Pete Willis, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange) - 5:56

Disc 2 (Deluxe Edition)

The Deluxe Edition, released in 2006, contains as a bonus a (heavily edited) live concert from the LA Forum on September 11, 1983:

1. Skirt! Skirt! (Till You Drop) (Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott)
2. Rock Brigade (Rick Savage, Steve Clark, Joe Elliott)
3. High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night) (Joe Elliott, Steve Clark, Rick Savage)
4. Another Hit and Run (Joe Elliott, Rick Savage)
5. Billy's Got a Gun (Steve Clark, Rick Savage, Pete Willis, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
6. Mirror Mirror (Look into My Eyes) (Joe Elliott, Steve Clark, Rick Savage)
7. Foolin ' (Steve Clark, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott)
8. Photographer (Steve Clark, Pete Willis, Rick Savage, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott)
9. Rock of Ages (Steve Clark, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Joe Elliott)
10. Bringin 'On the Heartbreak (Joe Elliott, Pete Willis, Steve Clark)
11. Switch 625 (Steve Clark)
12. Let It Go (Joe Elliott, Pete Willis, Steve Clark)
13. Wasted (Steve Clark, Joe Elliott)
14. Stagefright (Rick Savage, Joe Elliott, Robert John "Mutt" Lange)
15. Travellin 'Band (John Fogerty) (featuring Brian May )

Reception and aftermath

In 2004 Rolling Stone voted the album at number 384 of the " 500 best albums of all time " (2003 edition). It was no longer on the 2012 list. It also reached number 52 of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" and number 62 of the 100 best albums of the eighties. The album has reached ten platinum status in the US.

Rock Hard magazine put the album at number 92 on its list of 500 rock and metal albums in 2007. As the group's best-placed album on the same list, it was only one place ahead of its predecessor High 'n' Dry . In a review by Thomas Kupfer from the same magazine, it was said that hits “like Rock of Ages , Too Late for Love or Photograph ” are “among the best that melodic hard rock has produced to this day, and even years after their publication they have none of theirs Appearance lost. It is no different with the two best tracks, because they are unusually dramatic, Die Hard the Hunter and Billy's Got a Gun , which make it clear that Def Leppard never submitted to a simply structured songwriting formula. It is precisely this unexpected spontaneity that makes the difference between a very good album and a world-class record like Pyromania . "

The concise intro of Rock of Ages with the German-sounding nonsense words "Gunter, glieben, glauchen, globen" was taken over by the band The Offspring as the intro for their song Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) from the album Americana . The following lines "I've got something to say / it's better to burn out / than to fade away" were put into the mouth of the villain Kurgan in 1986 in the film Highlander .

Chart placements

The album was particularly successful in the United States, where it narrowly missed the top of the album charts at # 2. In addition, the singles Photograph, Rock of Ages and Foolin ' were able to place themselves in the Billboard charts and Too Late reached the British charts . In Europe, the album was less successful, it only reached number 23 in the charts in Sweden. It ranked 26th in New Zealand.

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Pyromania	-	-	-	UK18 (8 weeks) UK	US2 (122 weeks) US	Sales: +10,060,000

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1983	Photographer	-	-	-	UK66 (4 weeks) UK	US12 (17 weeks) US	First published: January 22, 1983
	Rock of Ages	-	-	-	UK41 (4 weeks) UK	US16 (15 weeks) US	First published: August 13, 1983
	Foolin '	-	-	-	-	US28 (14 weeks) US	First published: 1983
	Too late	-	-	-	UK86 (2 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 26, 1983

Awards for music sales

Silver record

•  United Kingdom
  • 1985: for the album Pyromania

Diamond record

•  United States
  • 2004: for the album Pyromania

Web links

• Pyromania at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rollingstone.com
2. ^ Rollingstone.com
3. ↑ Top 500 Albums of all time. Rolling Stone LLC / Archer & Valerie Productions, 2003, accessed October 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time: 52nd Def Leppard, 'Pyromania' (1983). In: Rolling Stone . June 21, 2017. Retrieved October 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ 100 Best Albums of the Eighties: 62nd Def Leppard, 'Pyromania'. In: Rolling Stone . November 16, 1998. Retrieved October 13, 2017 . 
6. ↑ riaa.com
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources album:
   • Pyromania in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Pyromania on US Billboard 200
   • Pyromania in the Swedish hit parade on SwedishCharts.com
   • Pyromania in the New Zealand charts on Charts.org.nz
8. ↑ Chart sources singles:
   • Def Leppard in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Def Leppard on US Billboard Hot 100
9. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK US