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''Hysteria'' is the fourth studio album by English hard rock band Def Leppard, released on 3 August 1987 through Mercury Records and reissued on 1 January 2000. It is the band's best-selling album to date, selling over 25 million copies worldwide, including 12 million in the US, and spawning seven hit singles. The album charted at #1 on both the ''Billboard'' 200 and the UK Albums Chart. ''Hysteria'' was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The title of the album was thought up by drummer Rick Allen, referring to his 1984 auto accident and the ensuing worldwide media coverage surrounding it. It is also the last album to feature guitarist Steve Clark before his death, although songs co-written by him would appear in the band's next album, ''Adrenalize''. The album is the follow-up to the band's 1983 breakthrough ''Pyromania''. ''Hysterias creation took over three years and was plagued by delays, including the aftermath of the 31 December 1984 car accident that cost drummer Rick Allen his left arm. Subsequent to the album's release, Def Leppard published a book entitled ''Animal Instinct: The Def Leppard Story'', written by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine Senior Editor David Fricke, on the three-year recording process of ''Hysteria'' and the tough times the band endured through the mid-1980s. ''Hysteria'' has earned critical acclaim from a number of sources. In 1988 ''Q'' magazine readers voted it as the 98th Greatest Album of All Time, while in 2004, the album was ranked at #464 on ''Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.〔(500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Hysteria - Def Leppard ) Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 November 2011〕 Clocking in at 62 and a half minutes, the album was, at the time, one of the longest albums ever issued on a single vinyl record. ==History== Initially, ''Hysteria'' was to be named ''Animal Instinct'' and produced by Lange, but he dropped out after pre-production sessions, citing exhaustion from a gruelling schedule from the past few years. Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman was brought in. Steinman's involvement was a disaster because he was more interested in making a raw rock n' roll record and capturing the moment, warts and all, while the band was still interested in a bigger, more pristine pop production.〔(Classic Albums Hysteria episode )〕 Joe Elliott later stated in interview: "Todd Rundgren produced (Meat Loaf's) ''Bat Out of Hell''. Jim Steinman WROTE it".〔 After parting ways with Steinman following an unsatisfactory recording of "Don't Shoot Shotgun", the band tried to produce the album themselves with Lange's engineer Nigel Green with no success, and initial recording sessions were entirely scrapped. On 31 December 1984, Rick Allen lost his left arm when his Corvette flipped off a country road. Following the accident, the band stood by Allen's decision to return to the drum kit despite his disability, using a combination electronic/acoustic kit with a set of Def pedals that triggered (via MIDI) the hits he would have played with his left arm. The band slowly soldiered on until Mutt Lange made a surprise return a year later, and Allen mastered his customised drum kit. However, the sessions were further delayed by Lange's own auto accident (sustaining leg injuries from which he quickly recovered) and a bout of the mumps suffered by singer Joe Elliott in 1986. The final recording sessions took place in January 1987 for the song "Armageddon It" and a last-minute composition "Pour Some Sugar on Me", but Lange spent another three months mixing the tracks. The album was finally released worldwide on 3 August 1987, with "Animal" as the lead single in most countries except for the US where "Women" was the first single. In the liner notes to the album, the band apologised for the long wait between albums, and promised to never make fans wait that long between albums again. Later events, namely the death of Steve Clark, proved that a hard promise to keep. According to David Simone, the managing director of Phonogram Records at the time, the album might have been the most expensive record made in the UK. According to Phil Collen the album had to sell 5 million copies to break-even.〔Classic Albums: Def Leppard - The Making of Hysteria, Isis Productions, Eagle Rock Entertainment〕 Fortunately for the band, their popularity in their homeland had significantly grown over the past four years, and ''Hysteria'' topped the charts in Britain in its first week of release. The album was also a major success in other parts of Europe. In the United States however the band at first struggled to regain the momentum of ''Pyromania'' that was lost from such a prolonged absence. The success of the album's fourth single, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" would propel the album to the top of the US ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart nearly a year after its release. In the ''Billboard'' issue dated 8 October 1988, Def Leppard held the #1 spot on both the singles and album charts with "Love Bites" and ''Hysteria'', respectively. ''Hysteria'' went on to dominate album charts around the world for three years. It was certified 12x platinum by the RIAA in 2009. The album currently sits as the 51st best selling album of all time in the US. It spent 96 weeks in the US top 40, a record for the 1980s it ties with Born in the U.S.A.〔Dave McAleer. ''The omnibus book of British and American hit singles, 1960-1990'' p.48. Omnibus Press, 1990〕〔Whitburn, Joel. ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums'', 3rd edition, Billboard Books, 1995, p. 386.〕 The album has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. The leadoff track, "Women", was selected as the first single for the US, instead of "Animal", in July 1987. Then-manager Cliff Burnstein reasoned that the band needed to reconnect with their hard rock audience first before issuing more Top 40-friendly singles. The strategy backfired somewhat as "Women" did not make a large impact on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, peaking at #80. It was a top 10 hit on the rock chart though, peaking at #7. Six more singles were subsequently released in the United States, with "Love Bites" reaching #1, and three others reaching the top ten. The singles earned similar success in the United Kingdom. Speaking to ''Kerrang!'' in May 2008 about the album's success, Joe Elliot remembered: For us the first album showed promise, the second showed the true reality of where we were going, the third album worked better in America than it did in England simply because there was no exposure radio-wise over here but by the time we did ''Hysteria'', everything had fallen into place. Airplay and hit singles were one aspect of it but there was also all the hard work we put into the album – we literally did slave over it to get every sound on it right. There was also Rick's accident, of course, and to be honest, I'm sure there was the initial wave of sympathy but I'm equally sure the album would have still worked anyway. None of the other stuff – the touring, the promotion, the videos – none of that would have meant anything if the songs hadn't been there and I'm still really proud of all the songs on ''Hysteria''.〔Travers, Paul. ''Kerrang!'' #1212, May 2008. Treasure Chest. An Intimate Portrait Of Life In Rock. Joe Elliot. P.52〕 On 24 October 2006, a 2 CD "deluxe edition" of the album was released, including a remastering of the original b-sides and bonus tracks from the album's period. Many of these songs, alongside two other ''Hysteria'' compositions "Desert Song" and "Fractured Love", had been featured on ''Retro Active'', albeit with remixes, revamps, and new parts added. The deluxe edition ''Hysteria'' deluxe CD included the original b-side versions of these recordings without alterations. During the March 22 through April 10, 2013 residency at The Joint, Def Leppard performed the album in its entirety, from start to finish. This was followed up with a live album ''Viva! Hysteria'' recorded during the residency and released on October 22, 2013, which includes all of ''Hysteria'' being played live. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hysteria (Def Leppard album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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