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Foolin'
"Foolin'" is a 1983 single by English heavy metal band Def Leppard from their diamond album ''Pyromania''. When released as a single later that year, it reached #9 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #28 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ''Cash Box'' said "Foolin'" has "structural similarities to arlier Def Leppard single'Photograph' and follows in that single’s skillful pop blend of melodicism and metallicism." '' Ultimate Classic Rock'' described the song as a "mid-tempo rocker". Music video The music video was shot in June 1983 at the Ritz Theatre in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and directed by David Mallet. The video shows Elliott escaping from his evil girlfriend in a fantasy sequence, interspersed with scenes of the band performing on a concert stage. It features Billy Idol's then-girlfriend Perri Lister playing the harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pyromania (album)
''Pyromania'' is the third studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 20 January 1983 through Vertigo Records in UK and Europe and through Mercury Records in the US. The first album to feature guitarist Phil Collen who replaced founding member Pete Willis, ''Pyromania'' was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The album was a shift away from the band's traditional heavy metal roots toward a more radio-friendly sound, finding massive mainstream success. ''Pyromania'' charted at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' 200, No. 4 on the Canadian RPM Album chart and No. 18 on the UK Albums Chart. Selling over ten million copies in the US, it has been certified diamond by the RIAA. Recording The album followed a relatively unconventional method of recording: the bass parts followed by guitars were recorded to a click track provided by a Linn LM-1 drum machine, with the drums being added last in the process. This gave the flexibility to re-record and re-write parts of a song as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Too Late For Love (Def Leppard Song)
"Too Late for Love" is a 1983 power ballad by English band Def Leppard from their Diamond album ''Pyromania''. When released as a single, it reached #9 on the Mainstream Rock charts. Track listing # "Too Late for Love" # "Foolin'" # "High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)" Personnel * Joe Elliott – lead vocals * Phil Collen – additional rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Steve Clark – lead guitar *Pete Willis Peter Andrew Willis (born 16 February 1960) is a retired English guitarist, best known as a founder member of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He was with Def Leppard from 1977 to 1982, when he was fired from the band and replaced by Phil Coll ... – rhythm guitar * Rick Savage – bass guitar, backing vocals * Rick Allen – drums Charts References Def Leppard songs 1983 singles Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange Song recordings produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange 1980s ballads 1983 songs Songs written by Joe Elliott Songs written by Steve Clark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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David Mallet (director)
David Victor Mark Mallet (born 17 December 1945) is a British director of music videos and concert films. He was one of the most prolific directors of music videos in the 1980s. Career Mallet rose to prominence in the late 1970s as a director of the then new format of music videos with the hugely successful enterprise MGMM, which he co-founded with Scott Millaney, Brian Grant and Russell Mulcahy. He is noted for his innovative work on hugely popular music videos in the 1980s, becoming one of the decade's most sought-after directors for this format. His work includes Iron Maiden's " Run to the Hills", David Bowie's " Ashes to Ashes" and " Let's Dance", Rush's " Distant Early Warning", and Queen's " Radio Ga Ga" and " I Want to Break Free" videos. He has directed numerous videos for AC/DC since the 1980s. He has also served as a producer on television programmes including '' The Kenny Everett Video Show''. He is also known for directing some concert recordings of soprano Sara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Historia (Def Leppard Video)
''Historia'' is a compilation video released by Def Leppard, containing all the band's promotional videos from 1980 to 1988. On DVD, it is bundled with the 1989 concert video '' Live: In the Round, in Your Face''. Track listing * "Armageddon It" and "Pour Some Sugar on Me" (U.S. version) are listed as live versions, but the videos are of a live performances accompanied by the studio album music tracks. VHS Published in the U.K., Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Australia in 1988 by Bludgeon Riffola Ltd./Warner Bros. Music Ltd and in the Rest of the World by Bludgeon Riffola Ltd./ Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. Was distributed across the U.K. by Channel 5 Video, a part of Polygram Music Video company. The back cover photograph featuring the band, was taken was by Ross Halfin. Video sleeve art direction was by Andie Aifix for Satori, who is also referenced as designer for the cover of Metallica: 'The Videos 1989-2004' on DVD. DVD errors The 2001 DVD release contains errors not p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Def Leppard
Def Leppard are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal of the early 1980s. Their greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and mid-1990s. With a line-up of Savage, Elliott, Allen and guitarists Steve Clark and Pete Willis, the band's first album, 1980's ''On Through the Night'', reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. Their second album, 1981's ''High 'n' Dry'', was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Mutt Lange, who helped them to define their melodic hard rock style. The album's most popular track "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982, but the album reached only t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Rock Of Ages (Def Leppard Song)
"Rock of Ages" is a song by Def Leppard from their 1983 album ''Pyromania''. When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached #16 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #19 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100. It also hit #1 on the Top Tracks Rock chart. In 2012, the band re-recorded the song, along with " Pour Some Sugar on Me", under the title "Rock of Ages 2012". Both were released digitally on 4 June 2012. Lyrics The song begins with "Gunter glieben glauten globen", a German-like nonsense phrase introduced by Mutt Lange, who is of German descent. According to the official Def Leppard , That same count-in was sampled by the Offspring at the beginning of their 1998 song " Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)". As the song's melody begins, Elliott speaks the lines, "All right/I've got something to say/It's better to burn out/Than to fade away"; the second two lines are a reference to Neil Young's song " My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)". Def Leppard's four-line version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ultimate Albums
This is a list of programs currently broadcast or will air soon or formerly aired on VH1. Current Acquired programming *'' 48 Hours'' *''The Jamie Foxx Show'' *'' My Wife and Kids'' Former Music television Docuseries Reality/Unscripted Game shows Talk show/Variety Scripted programming Drama Comedy Acquired programming *''American Bandstand'' *'' Armed & Famous'' *'' Arsenio Jams'' *''Beauty and the Geek'' *''Beavis and Butt-Head'' *''Chappelle's Show'' *'' Cheaters'' *'' The Cher Show'' *''The Cleveland Show'' *''Click!'' *''Don't Forget the Lyrics!'' *''Entertainment Tonight'' *''Eve'' *''FashionTelevision'' *''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' *'' Gene Simmons' Rock School'' *'' Girlfriends'' *'' Happy Endings'' *'' Hard Rock Live'' *''Hip Hop Honors'' *''In Living Color'' *'' Jackson 5ive'' *''John Mayer Has a TV Show'' *'' Key & Peele'' *''Living Single'' *''Martin'' *''Matzo and Metal'' *'' Maxim Hot 100'' *''Miami Vice'' *'' The Midnight Special'' * ''The Mindy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eyes Without A Face (song)
"Eyes Without a Face" is a song by the English rock musician Billy Idol, from his second studio album '' Rebel Yell'' (1983). It was released in April 1984 as the second single from the album in the US, and June 1984 in the UK. The song is softer and more ballad-like than most of the album's other singles. It reached No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Idol's first top-10 hit in the US. The song's title was borrowed from the horror film known in English as '' Eyes Without a Face'' (1960). Background In his memoir, ''Dancing with Myself'' (2014), Idol explained he had always been fascinated with old black and white horror films, including the 1960 French film ''Les Yeux sans visage'' (''Eyes Without a Face''), directed by Georges Franju. The movie concerns a plastic surgeon who vowed to restore the face of his daughter who had been disfigured in a car crash, and this quest led him to murder victims and graft their facial features onto his daughter in an attempt to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Def Leppard Songs
Def or DEF may refer to: Music * Def (instrument), a Middle Eastern musical instrument *''DEF II'', a British youth TV programme *Def American, a rock and rap record label *Def Jam Recordings, a rap record label * Def Jux, a rap record label *Def Leppard, a British hard rock band *So So Def Recordings, a rap record label Other uses * def, a keyword in Python and PostScript * Danish EL-Federation, Danish trade union for electricians * Design Exchange Format, or DEF * , or DEF, Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory in Kraków, Poland * Diesel exhaust fluid, or DEF, also known as AdBlue or AUS 32 * Disarmed Enemy Forces, or DEF * Diethylformamide, an organic solvent People with the name *Mos Def, a rap artist *Def Jef, a rap artist See also * *Defcon (other) In the United States, DEFCON is a defense alert state (numbered 1–5) used by the Armed Forces. In the United Kingdom, DEFCON refers to numbered defence contract conditions issued by the Ministry of Defence. Defcon, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1983 Singles
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 6 – Pope John Paul II appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the ''Rudé právo'' newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Vatican, leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states. * January 14 – The head of Bangladesh's military dictatorship, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state." * January 18 – U.S. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt makes controversial remarks blaming poor living conditions on Native American reservations on "the failures of socialism." Watt will eventually resign in September after a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |