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AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL BURLINGTON STEAMBOAT DAYS

Def Leppard
ON FRIDAY, JUNE 20th, 2003 - 8:00 P.M.

Taking the Miller Outdoor Stage by storm on Friday, June 20th will be the
critically acclaimed Brit Rock band DEF LEPPARD, who first began packing arenas
in the late 80's when their 4th and most popular album "Hysteria" was released.
7 of the albums 12 tracks were released as singles: "Women", "Animal", "Pour
Some Sugar On Me", "Love Bites", "Armageddon It", "Hysteria", and "Rocket". The
album has sold 17 million copies to date.

Other successes include "The DEF LEPPARD EP" in 1978, "On Through The Night"
released in 1980, "High'N'Dry" from 1982, "Pyromania" in 1983, "Adrenalize" in
1992, "Retro Active" 1993, and "Slang" in 1996, just to name a few.

Summer 2002, and just for a change, Britain is caught up in a wave of nostalgia.
It's been 25 years since the Sex Pistols sought to unravel the moral fibre of
the nation with furious punk rock. It's also 25 years since teenage rock fans
Joe Elliott and Rick Savage first got together in a Sheffield council flat
bedroom to form a rock band called DEF LEPPARD. But a quarter of a century and
some 45 million album sales later, Joe Elliott is more interested in looking to
the future than reflecting on the past.

The reason is "X", appropriately enough DEF LEPPARD'S 10th studio album, and the
4th written by the ten year old line-up of Elliott, bassist Savage, guitarists
Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell and drummer Rick Allen. A sleek, streamlined
affair, "X" draws together LEPPARD'S trademark sonic stylings - punchy melodic
guitar work, multi-layered vocal harmonies, instant pop hooks and towering,
widescreen choruses - into a tight commercial ball. It's an infusion of metal,
rock and pop and everything in between. It's a record of great songs. Second
best was never good enough for this band!

DEF LEPPARD began working on "X" with long time cohort Pete Woodrofe on July 7,
2001 at Joe Elliott's Dublin home. Having taken 6 months off upon completion of
the highly successful "Euphoria" world tour, the quintet was fresh, revitalized
and bursting with song-writing ideas. The band worked 6 days a week, noon to
midnight in Elliott's home studio, and with Woodroffe and Campbell occupying
Elliott's guest bedrooms and Collen staying in the singer's "granny flat", the
vibe was less that of a superstar rock band and more that of a hungry new outfit
with something to prove. "What we've got that you can't buy, plan, learn or
develop is chemistry. We are all on the same page musically and mentally." says
Elliott.

Decamping from Elliott's studio, the band spent 2 weeks in L.A. with Aerosmith
collaborator Marti Frederiksen. They returned to Dublin, spending 2 highly
productive days with Andreas Carlsson and Per Aldeheim, part of the phenomenally
successful Cheiron hit factory responsible for penning tracks for Britney
Spears, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync. Eyebrows were raised at the latter
collaborations, a fact which bemuses the LEPPARD MEN no end..... They wrote
"When The Walls Come Tumbling Down" with Andy Smith, and from "Pyromania"
onwards they wrote with Mutt Lange, who taught them that the song is king and
ego should never be allowed to interfere.

Come 1988, DEF LEPPARD was the biggest band in the world. They appealed to not
only rock fans, but to fans of classic rock, modern rock and pop rock. They are
unapologetically devoted to their jobs. Their need to do this has never dropped
or wavered. "X" debuted at #11 on Billboard's Top 200 selling over 71,000 units
in one week in August 2002. Their greatest hits collection "Vault" was also the
#1 album on Billboard's Top Catalogue Albums in August 2002. "Vault" has
remained in the Top 20 of the Billboard Top 200/Top Catalogue Albums Chart since
it's release almost 7 years ago.

Join us Friday, June 20th on the Miller Outdoor Stage at 8 pm for one of the
World's Premier Rock Bands, DEF LEPPARD. It will be an unforgettable Rock'N'Roll
phenomonen.

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