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...Leppard has gone through several recent tragedies. on New Year's Eve 1984, the drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a car accident, yet three years later Leppard released Hysteria, an album which topped their previous album Pyromania. In January of 1991, Def Leppard lost their lead guitarist, Steve Clark, after a long battle with alcoholism. I didn't expect an album so quickly afterward, and I certainly didn't expect it to be this good...
...Leppard's new album, Adrenalize, is a knockout punch in a velvet glove. Combining hard and soft guitar, this album will sway even the most adamant opponent of hard rock...
Many bands fall into the trap of trying to outdo themselves and end up sounding contrived, but not Def Leppard. Adrenalize is a wholly original album that has some of Def Leppard's best trademarks yet is not a direct copy of their previous successes...
...Leppard's lively performance of the "Haffner," with a scaled-down orchestra assembled from the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School Orchestra, was peculiar because it broke off after the minuet. Then came two piano concertos, two piano solos, a serenade and four individual arias (all admirably performed by such soloists as pianist Jeffrey Kahane and soprano Dawn Upshaw) before the "Haffner" finale arrived as a kind of farewell...
This sort of programming was standard in Mozart's day, and Leppard was inaugurating the bicentennial by re-creating a concert that Mozart himself had presented in 1783. "Suffice it to say that the theater could not have been more crowded, and that every box was full," the composer proudly wrote to his father Leopold (which is why we know the details of the program). "But what pleased me most of all was that His Majesty the Emperor was present, and goodness! how delighted he was and how he applauded...