It's the last night of the Def Leppard tour and backstage in the Tacoma Dome dressing room, a whole host of people have gathered to pay their Tacoma 1988 'Hystoric Leppard' - Band Interview Quotes Shown below is a quote from Joe taken from an interview with journalist Mick Wall conducted backstage in Tacoma. The band returned to the Tacoma Dome for the first time since this show on 1st October 2016 during the Summer 2016 tour. This was achieved on 27th September 1988 (not 14th October.) when both 'Pyromania' and 'Hysteria' were certified 7 times platinum. Steve's solo can be heard and he is shown briefly wearing baggy white trousers and holding one of his white twin-neck Gibson guitars.Īfter the show a backstage party was held and the band were awarded with a double-sided platinum plaque to mark being the first band in history to sell 7 million copies of It shows the soundcheck and features parts of the band playing 'Die Hard The Hunter'. View backstage footage from the Hysteria tour filmed in 1988 (including the last show) in this YouTube playlist filmed by then Tour Manager Ian Jeffery. This stage was seen in promo videos and the In The Round-In Your Face concert video filmed in Denver, CO.īetween that date and 27th October 1988 the band played to over 1.5 million fans in the USA alone and almost 2 million during the entire tour. The In The Round stage had been unveiled on 1st October 1987 in Glens Falls, NY. View some images of Steve from this tour (at the bottom of the page) which were shown on the video screens in Tokyo, Japan during the current 2018 'Hysteria & More' tour. Guns during this final leg of the tour who featured Phil's ex-Girl band mate Phil Lewis The song that was eventually scrapped and re-recorded in 1991 as the band finished off the 'Adrenalize' album.
His last ever appearance on a stage was in September 1989 at the MTV awards.Īll performances after the Hysteria tour were done using playback apart from this one where Joe's vocals were live.
Most of these happened in January/February 1989 including the Brit Awards at London's Royal Albert Hall and his last ever UK performance He then performed with the band on various UK/European Steve appeared in the promo video for 'Rocket', filmed one month after the tour ended. Included as a bonus track on the UK CD single for the Was later released on the demo recording of 'When Love & Hate Collide' in 1995. Steve continued to perform and record with the band through late 1988 and into 1990. Leave of absence from the making of the 'Adrenalize' album. He eventually died in January 1991 after his long battle with alcoholism came to a sad end whilst on a six month
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This show turned out to be the last full live concert with Steve Clark as a member of the band. The longest tour in the band's career at that point had started in Dublin, Ireland on 27th August 1987. Their 1987 show at the same venue grossed $196,718 and was attended by 11,499 fans. The biggest indoor audience of the tour (26,962 fans attended) with tickets costing $18.50 and the total gross at $494,579. The 227th show took place at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, WA, USA. Def Leppard ended their 14 month Hysteria world tour in Tacoma, WA, USA on this day in 1988.
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