A beautiful song written for Steve Clark after he passed away by his fiance, Lorelei Shellist. You can get it at cdbaby.com. All proceeds go to the Mesa College Music Scholarship fund.

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Songs From The Sparkle Lounge

1. Go
2. Nine Lives
3. C'mon C'mon
4. Love
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Rebellious, headstrong and independent - a runaway at age 15 - Lorelei Shellist has lived a life full of gritty and glamorous extremes. While working as a coffee shop waitress in the evenings, going to school in the mornings and calling fashion photographers in the afternoons - she dreamed of traveling the world as a model. A chance meeting with a 70s SoCal Rock Star opened the A-list Hollywood doors to a wondrous world - as well as a full blown romance.

Pounding the pavements of L.A. and New York taught her the hard knocks of being a working class model. Sheer will and determination jetted her off to Europe where she proved her critics wrong and strutted the catwalks of Paris as a top model/muse to Chanel, YSL, Ungaro, Bob Mackie and Christian LaCroix; and where she met the doomed love of her life, her fiancé Steve Clark of Def Leppard.

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"SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE" SET FOR RELEASE ON APRIL 29, 2008

Album Release Kicks Off With U.S. Spring Concert Tour! Album Contains 11 NEW Original Songs Including the Single "Nine Lives" Featuring Tim McGraw

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New York, February 28, 2008 - Def Leppard, Great Britain's premiere arena rock band, is back with a bang-kicking off 2008 with the release of their 14th studio album and a U.S. arena concert tour scheduled for this spring. Entitled "SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE" (Bludgeon Riffola/Island/UMe), the album set for release on April 29, contains 11 new songs including the highly-anticipated single "NINE LIVES" featuring a groundbreaking collaboration with country music superstar Tim McGraw. The band is set to debut the single on ABC-TV's Dancing With The Stars on April 29 and on Jimmy Kimmel Live on April 30. "SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE" is Def Leppard's first album of brand new material since 2002's "X" and begins yet another remarkable new chapter in the band's 30-year recording career.

Recorded last year during month-long stints at lead singer Joe Elliott's Dublin studio, the album's title refers to a backstage area called "The Sparkle Lounge" on Def Leppard's 2006 tour where the band would go to write songs. Tracks from the album have been described by the group as written in the style of "HYSTERIA", with the production of "HIGH 'N' DRY"

"The whole record's got a great '70s feel," said lead singer Joe Elliott. "By our standards, it's a very different album as we've been very adventurous, musically, on certain numbers. On the album there are classic Def Leppard songs and then there's also tracks that are very new-wave influenced while others sound like middle-to-late '70s AC/DC. There will definitely be some moments on it where anybody that's familiar with our music will go, 'Whoa! I wasn't expecting that!'"

The foundation for the album's collaboration with country music superstar Tim McGraw was layed at Def Leppard's 2006 Hollywood Bowl show where McGraw joined the band on stage for an encore performance of "POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME." The artists stayed in touch following the performance, and when the band started writing the song "NINE LIVES" they immediately thought of reaching out to McGraw to sing on it. Guitarist Phil Collen flew to Nashville to play it for McGraw who loved it and recorded the song in Nashville shortly after. Other standout tracks on the album include "GO," reminiscent of the band's classic track "ROCKET" in its power and aggressive tribal beat; "LOVE," an emotive and moving epic song; and the anthemic "TOMORROW," a song written by guitarist Collen about the death of his father.

With more than 65 million albums sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards to their credit, Def Leppard--Joe Elliott (vocals), Vivian Campbell (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick "Sav" Savage (bass) and Rick Allen (drums)-continues to be one of the most important forces in rock music. Over the course of their career, the band has produced a series of classic groundbreaking albums that set the sound for generations of music fans and artists. The group's spectacular live shows, filled with powerful melodic rock anthems, have become synonymous with their name and they are an institution in the touring industry as they continue to sell out arenas worldwide.

The 11 working titles on the new album are as follows:

Go Nine Lives C'mon C'mon Love Tomorrow Cruise Control Hallucinate Only The Good Die Young Bad Actress Come Undone Gotta Let It Go

For more information on Def Leppard, "SONGS FROM THE SPARKLE LOUNGE", and upcoming tour news, please visit the band's web site at www.defleppard.com.

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Def Leppard - Yeah

Track listing:
10538 Overture - originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra in 1972
20th Century Boy - originally recorded by T.Rex in 1973
Don't Believe A Word - originally recorded by Thin Lizzy in 1976
Drive-In Saturday - originally recorded by David Bowie in 1973
Hanging On The Telephone - originally recorded by The Nerves in 1977, and Blondie in 1978
He's Gonna Step On You Again - originally recorded by John Kongos in 1971
Hell Raiser - originally recorded by Sweet in 1973
Little Bit Of Love - originally recorded by Free in 1972
No Matter What - originally recorded by Badfinger in 1970
Rock On - originally recorded by David Essex in 1973
Stay With Me - originally recorded by Faces in 1971
Street Life - originally recorded by Roxy Music in 1973
The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll - originally recorded by Mott the Hoople in 1974
Waterloo Sunset - originally recorded by The Kinks in 1967

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HYSTERIA DELUXE EDITION

Album Follows on the Heels of Massively Successful 2006 US Concert Tour Extended Through November 19th! NEW YORK, NY, September 19, 2006--Sixty-five million albums later and the hysteria continues for iconic rockers Def Leppard. With the band's latest album, Yeah!, debuting in the Top 20 of Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart (marking the group's 10th consecutive Top 20 debut), and a sold-out tour that rocks America through November 19th, Def Leppard is now preparing to release a special edition of Hysteria, the group's best-selling album and one of the pre-eminent rock albums in music history. The release celebrates the album's upcoming 20th anniversary with a two-CD Hysteria - Deluxe Edition (Bludgeon Riffola/Island/UMe), set for release on October 24, 2006.

Along with the original album, newly digitally re-mastered, Hysteria - Deluxe Edition adds 15 bonus tracks recorded around the time of the original 1987 release. The collection includes all five studio b-sides of the 7" singles, all five live b-sides issued on 7" and 12" (and later on CD singles), and all five extended remixes from 12" and CD singles. The packaging features all of the elements of the original album plus additional photos, single sleeve artwork, an essay by noted rock journalist David Fricke, and detailed discographical information. For Def Leppard fans, as well as rock fans in general, the Hysteria - Deluxe Edition offers the most complete presentation of the legendary album ever issued.

Since its debut, Hysteria has sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, including 12 times platinum in the U.S., making it one of the best-selling albums of all time and earning a prestigious Diamond Award in 1999. The Diamond Award recognizes sales of over 10 million, a feat not many bands and only a handful of British artists have been able to achieve (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Eric Clapton). The blockbuster album spawned six smash hits--the Top 10s "Love Bites" (#1), "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (#2), "Armageddon It" (#3) and "Hysteria" (#10), and Top 20s "Rocket" (#12) and "Animal" (#19). Produced by the renowned Mutt Lange, Hysteria was a milestone that expanded the boundaries of the hard rock album by redefining pop and metal.

Disc One of the Hysteria - Deluxe Edition brings together the original album and the studio b-sides "Tear It Down," "Ride Into The Sun," "I Wanna Be Your Hero" and "Ring Of Fire." Disc Two collects the live b-sides "Elected," "Love And Affection," "Billy's Got A Gun" and the medley titled "Rock Of Ages" (which includes parts of the classic rock anthems "Not Fade Away," "My Generation," "Radar Love," "Come Together" and "Whole Lotta Love")--all recorded in concert in Tilburg, Holland in July 1987--and also "Women," recorded live in Denver the following year. The remixes are extended versions of "Animal" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me"; The Nuclear Mix of "Armageddon It"; Orgasmic Mix of "Excitable"; and The Lunar Mix of "Rocket." Disc Two also features another studio b-side, a humorous version of "Release Me," credited to Stumpus Maximus & The Good Ol' Boys.

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