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“Mutt said, ‘Give it a go, and if it doesn’t work get rid of the guy.’ And that’s exactly what we had to do, because Jim was less than useless!”: Why Def Leppard couldn’t make their monster hit Hysteria with Jim Steinman as producer

Def Leppard in 1987.

Def Leppard were shooting for the stars with their fourth album. As singer Joe Elliott put it: “We wanted to push the envelope of what rock music was.”

That album, Hysteria, would become the band’s biggest seller, with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide. It was also the adventurous, big-production masterpiece that they’d set out to create.

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