Def Leppard Atomic Mess News

Goodbye will be the second single released from Euphoria in the U.K. The single will come in 2 parts, both of which come with enhanced video footage to be viewed on your PC. The track listing for each CD is as follows:

CD 1

• Goodbye (Video)
• Burnout
• Immortal

CD 2

• Goodbye
• Who Do You Love?
• When Love And Hate Collide (Video)

There will also be a Cassette version which will probably feature Goodbye and Burnout. The single is to be released in the U.K. on Monday August 23.

Courtesy of Judy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Courtesy of Cee Cee: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Courtesy of Angela Wacker: 1, 2.

SPEAK EASY # 2 : NOW
In the second part of the Speak Easy, we catch up with the band during their visit to India for the 1998 Channel [V] Music Awards. The boys disclose what they have been up to over the past couple of years, and reveal their future plans. Sunday, July 18th @ 16:00 HK/PHIL, @ 17:00 JAP/MAL.

Euphoria has been certified GOLD (500,000 units sold) by the RIAA. The album also dropped from #44 to #47 in it's fifth week of release.

6 track 2-CD set includes an enhanced CD-ROM

CD1:
Promises (inc Video for enhanced CD)
Back in Your Face
Album Snippets (Demolition Man, All Night, Day After Day)
Enhanced CD includes Promises Video/Lyrics (Promises only) and Biography

CD2:
Back in Your Face
Promises
Worlds Collide

Courtesy of 95.5 KLOS: 1, 2, 3.

Courtesy of Janet Keizer: 1, 2, 3.

Def Leppard was interviewed on the radio show "RockLine". A 25th Anniversary Box Set was announced as a possibility, as well as 2 new b-sides, "To Be Alive (Viv's Demo)" and "???". No transcript is available at this time.

Def Leppard will appear live on the MARK AND BRIAN show on KLOS Friday, July 9, at 9 AM PT, broadcast from the Key Club in West Hollywood. The show is carried by other affiliate stations around the country. Visit www.955klos.com for more info. KLOS will also be giving tickets as prizes to its listeners.

Def Leppard performed at ZetaFest, a music festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, along with such bands as Everclear. The set list for the 70 minute show was as follows:

• Demolition Man (Euphoria)
• Promises (Euphoria)
• Lets Get Rocked (Adrenalize) — they closed with this after the encore
• Animal (Hysteria)
• Women (Hysteria)
• Pour Some Sugar on Me (Hysteria)
• Love Bites (Hysteria)
• Rocket (Hysteria)
• Hysteria (Hysteria)
• Rock Rock! Til' You Drop (Pyromania)
• Photograph (Pyromania)
• Too Late For Love (Pyromania)
• Foolin (Pyromania)
• Rock of Ages (Pyromania)

Pictures (courtesy of 94.9 Zeta): 1, 2, 3.

After some problems with the first authorised Def Leppard web site, www.defleppard.co.uk arose, the situation has been corrected. Malvin Mortimer, Def Leppard's manager wrote the following:

John Burke of Defleppard.co.uk has been fired! He was solely responsible for the site, no-one else was involved. It is not absolute yet, because he has to wrap things up. He is not allowed to open Defleppard.co.uk between now and his departure – afterwards, that site will most likely be used as a link to Defleppard.com.

He will never be allowed to represent Def Leppard again. His scathing remarks were totally unfounded and selfish! His apology was apalling! I cannot believe how stupid he is!!

The band regret any offence caused, and send you their best wishes and thanks.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should any other problems of this kind arise.

I would personally like to thank all of you for flying our flag so faithfully, and for so long.

You are the best fans in the business.

See you out there,

cheers,

Malvin

Def Leppard performed at the San Antonio, Texas Wal-Mart store to promote their new album. After the show, they had an online chat with America OnLine. They revealed the names of several b-sides (Immortal, I Am Your Child, Worlds Collide, Burnout, Gone, Lifeless, Candy In Your Hands and then three cover songs — Stay With Me, an old Faces song. Rebel, Rebel by David Bowie, from '74. And an Ian Hunter song called Who Do You Love?). Also mentioned were Telephone, Space, and No Matter What as songs still in progress.

Full text of article…

Promises was released as the first single from Euphoria. It quickly rose on the request list of many stations around the United States and has been firmly at #1 in the radio airplay charts for three consecutive weeks (as of July 10, 1999). Concurrently, sales of the greatest hits album, Vault have increased dramatically, and it is currently #5 in the re-release album chart.

A short sample of Promises is available from the Audio Section.

Euphoria was released in the US on June 8. On its first week it sold over 98,000 units, coming in at #11 in the music charts. It was 706 units short of #10. More information on the release of Euphoria is available, including tour dates.