Nevertheless, salvation was at hand with the intervention of Def Leppard's powerful manager, Peter Mensch, who also handled AC/DC, and was able to convince Highway to Helland Back in Black producer Lange to sign on for his rising clients' next album sessions, due to begin in March 1981. 4), leaving Def Leppard playing second fiddle to the London-based rock press' hometown boys. 15 chart peak had been eclipsed within a month by Iron Maiden's eponymous debut (which went to No. in support of major acts like AC/DC, Judas Priest and Sammy Hagar, but their album's initially impressive No. The following year, Def Leppard toured across the U.K. Then, little more than a year later, in March 1980, the young Sheffield, England-based quintet of singer Joe Elliott, guitarists Steve Clark and Pete Willis, bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen unleashed its first full-length album, On Through the Night. It all starts back in 1979, when an inexperienced but ambitious Def Leppard became one of the very first New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands (even though they never felt a particularly strong kinship to the movement) to release some a record – the immensely collectible Def Leppard EP.
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