Guitar, Written-By – Air Commander Phil "Felix, P.C. The Guru, Wambo Tap" Collen, B.T.H.*, Wing Commander Steve "Steamin', Dreamy, Snikker, Mayhem, P.T.W." Clark, A.H.D*

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And Joe, what can I say? We’d have Foosball tournaments. Joe would look at me like my son, Thomas, does today. “Who the hell are you? You can’t play foosball!” Well, I’m sure Joe will remember things differently but sorry… I have to admit it. I was the Foosball champion. Enough said, okay? I don’t wanna talk about it any more, Joe!. ☺️ Finally, like I said, it was a great relief when Mike Shipley got involved. It took the pressure off me and his first few mixes gave us the formula we needed to finish the album. In the end Mike too had to leave after mixing for about 4 months. He and I ended up mixing six songs each. Hysteria was recorded at: Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, Holland: Thanks to Bart, Bert, Inge, Joke, Ronald, Irwin, Jan Fred, Peter, Freek, Henk and Henk, Albert Boekholt, Albert Hartwig, Junior, Miriam, Petra, Ilse and Lex. Windmill Lane Studio 2, Dublin, Ireland: Thanks to Irene, Bronwen, Suzanne, Ann Fox and Mark Flannery. Studio Des Dames, Paris, France: Thanks to Marcel. Read now the brand new Billboard interview with the band and recording team on what it took to make Hysteria. Def Leppard’s ‘Hysteria’ Turns 30: An Oral History of the Album’s Painful Path to Victory Guitar [Guitars] – Air Commodore Phil "Felix, P.C., The Guru, Wambo, Tap" Collen, B.T.H.*, Wing Commander Steve "Steamin', Dreamy, Snikker, Mayhem, P.T.W." Clark, A.H.D.*Finally, we would like to thank everybody at Hoshino Industries (Tama Drums and Ibanez Guitars) for their help and support over the past couple of years.

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There are many more stories about how this album was put together. I know the band will have loads of stories of their own. I’ve mostly talked about the technical side because that was my job and I wanted to explain why we took the approach we did. (And why it took so long!) All I can remember is the last mix took me and Mutt straight through the night into the morning and I had to catch a flight within hours to cut the second side of the album in New York.They eventually emerged from the maelstrom with a stone-cold classic. Hysteria redefined state-of-the-art, from its meticulously sharp production to the monstrous drum sound that inadvertently gave every other 80s band permission to sound like they were triggering explosive charges in a ballroom every time they hit the skins.