Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
You had to figure it would only be a matter of time before someone did a movie dramatization of the amazing story of one of rock's most successful bands Def Leppard. The triumph over adversity lineage of this fivesome that escaped the gritty industrial town of Sheffield, England is the kind of storybook set up that you would think a lot of producers and directors would wet their pants over. When a movie finally did get made, airing on VH1 of course, the dramatized story of the first eight years of The Lep's existence was told in an uneven but reasonably enjoyable way.
The movie titled 'Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story' focuses on the climb of the band and the epochal moments after their huge success with the album 'Pyromania', its subsequent tour with the main focal points on the accident causing the loss of drummer Rick Allen's left arm and the affect on the band's recording efforts of guitarist Steve Clark's burgeoning drinking problem.