Hysteria (Deluxe Edition)

Def Leppard To Release ‘The Early Years 79 – 81’ Box Set In March.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/...s-box-set/amp/

Joe announced that the Sin City Residency live DVD/Blu Ray will be released "soon" along with the UK Hysteria tour DVD from 2018.

Three great news!

Plus I can't wait to see them again, this time in the USA

I might pick up The Early Years as it has more material that I don’t already own, unlike the previous two Volumes which only had a handful of tracks I didn’t already have. Plus it looks like this set has all the bonus tracks previously exclusive to Volume 1.

Volume 3 has just been announced, which covers the 2000’s from X to Songs from the Sparkle Lounge;

https://www.defleppard.com/def-leppa...-june-11-2021/

The best thing about this is that a volume 4 is coming. God willing - that volume 4 gives us a completely redone "Live In The Round - In Your Face" ala what Pink Floyd just did to "Delicate Sound of Thunder." Steve needs to be seen in HD/4K HDR widescreen without Isham's visual quirks getting in the way (that entire behind the curtain sequence before the drop is a mess of video effects and poor angles.)

That would be great but I doubt a Volume 4 would cover that. Volume 4 would be covering the 2010’s which will obviously include the 2015 album, maybe Mirrorball and probably some live audio from concerts of that decade. We haven’t had any DVD/BD discs with these box sets so I’m assuming a Volume 4 would continue that trend.

LItR,ITF definitely needs an HD remaster though. The DVD was terrible quality and the sound mix was pretty poor as well. I hope they preserve whatever the original aspect ratio it was and no cropping-to-16:9 happens. A true HD 4K scan would really bring that show out.

I’m not really interested in Volume 3 in all honesty. I may purchase the B-Sides digitally individually but I’m not even sure about that. The 2000’s were generally lacklustre compared to the 80’s and 90’s and I pretty much “lived” that era. Got some great memories of collecting the bands music (past and then-present) and the lives shows I went to, but I’m not bothered about diving back in that time again.

There’s also a digital release entitled X, Yeah! & Songs From The Sparkle Lounge: Rarities From The Vault, which as the title suggests, is basically Volume 3 minus the studio albums;

X, Yeah! & Songs From The Sparkle Lounge: Rarities From The Vault by Def Leppard https://music.apple.com/gb/album/x-y...ult/1562188926

This is more appealing to me than double-dipping on those albums. Hopefully there’ll be a physical release as well. The Yeah! 2 disc also includes covers from the Euphoria era that weren’t included on Volume 2.

Pyromania 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition;

https://store.defleppard.com/collect...th-anniversary

https://store.defleppard.com/collect...t-shirt-bundle