Ross Halfin is the author of The Ultimate Metallica and has toured withand photographed many bands, including Iron Maiden, KISS, The Clash,Sex Pistols, and The Who. He lives in Surrey, England.

Joe Elliott is the lead singer of Def Leppard. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

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Def Leppard’s unstoppable, anthemic hard rock has earned them a legion of dedicated fans and sales of more than 75 million albums worldwide. This fully authorized visual history of the band follows them from late-1970s Sheffield, England, and the new wave of British heavy metal to their massive Pyromania and Hysteria albums to the sustained power of their records and tours today.

Legendary rock photographer Ross Halfin has been shooting the band since 1978, and his candid and defini-tive pictures have helped capture and shape the image of the band. Def Leppard includes more than 450 of his classic and unseen photographs, along with a treasure trove of ephemera, and stories and commentary by band members and others.

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