Pyromania (album)

Pyromania
Studio album by Def Leppard
Released	20 January 1983 (1983-01-20)
Recorded	January–November 1982
Studio	Park Gates Studios (Battle, Sussex, England) Battery Studios (London, England)
Genre	Glam metal[1][2][3][4][5][6] heavy metal[7] hard rock[8]
Length	44:57
Label	Vertigo (UK and Europe) Mercury (US)
Producer	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Def Leppard chronology
High 'n' Dry (1981) Pyromania (1983) Hysteria (1987)
Singles from Pyromania
"Photograph" Released: 3 February 1983 "Rock of Ages" Released: May 1983[9] "Foolin'" Released: September 1983 [9] "Too Late for Love" Released: 25 November 1983 (UK only)

Pyromania is an album written by Def Leppard. It was released on January 20, 1983. This album was the first album to include Phil Collen. He replaced Pete Willis.^[10] The album was No. 4 on the Canadian RPM Album chart and No. 18 on the UK Albums Chart.^[11] Selling over ten million copies in the US, it has been certified diamond by the RIAA.^[12]

Track listing

Original release

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)"	3:52
2.	"Photograph"	4:12
3.	"Stagefright"	3:46
4.	"Too Late for Love"	4:30
5.	"Die Hard the Hunter"	6:17

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Foolin'"	4:32
7.	"Rock of Ages"	4:09
8.	"Comin' Under Fire"	4:20
9.	"Action! Not Words"	3:49
10.	"Billy's Got a Gun"	5:56

• "Comin' Under Fire" and "Action! Not Words" are listed inversely on the original Mercury vinyl release, but play in the order above.
• The last 56 seconds of track 10 following "Billy's Got a Gun" is a hidden track named "The March of the Wooden Zombies".^[13]

2009 deluxe edition bonus disc

Live – L.A. Forum, 11 September 1983
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)"	4:16
2.	"Rock Brigade"	3:25
3.	"High 'n' Dry (Saturday Night)"	3:22
4.	"Another Hit and Run"	6:14
5.	"Billy's Got a Gun"	4:43
6.	"Mirror Mirror (Look into My Eyes)"	4:24
7.	"Foolin'"	4:59
8.	"Photograph"	4:03
9.	"Rock of Ages"	4:53
10.	"Bringin' On the Heartbreak"	4:06
11.	"Switch 625"	3:23
12.	"Let It Go"	5:56
13.	"Wasted"	5:55
14.	"Stagefright"	4:55
15.	"Travelin' Band" (featuring Brian May)	6:09

References

1. "Def Leppard -Biography, Discography, History". MetalDescent. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2015. Their 1983 album Pyromania helped establish a virtual blueprint for glam metal bands to work with throughout the 80s.
2. "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". Metal Rules. Archived from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
3. Eddy, Chuck (July 2008). "Essentials – Hair Metal". Spin. p. 105.
4. Westhoff, Ben (6 December 2011). "Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums". LA Weekly. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
5. "With Pyromania, Def Leppard made a pop-metal hybrid for the ages". Music. 12 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
6. "Pop Metal". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012.
7. "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 21 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
8. Wall, Mick (2010). Appetite for Destruction: The Mick Wall Interviews. Orion. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-40911-435-2.
9. Senff, Mark. "Def Leppard Online Discography – 7" vinyl". Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
10. "Pyromania Billboard Albums". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
11. "Def Leppard Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
12. "RIAA Searchable Database: search for "Def Leppard"". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
13. Eddy, Chuck (2011-08-10). Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism. Duke University Press. p. 121. ISBN 9780822350101.