' CAUSE THEY LIVE FOR
ROCK N' ROLL
THEY'LL TRY TO STEAL
YOUR SOUL
On Through the Night
is the debut studio album
by English
rock band
released on
March 14th 1980.
The album was produced by
Tom Allom.
It charted at No. 15
on the UK Albums Chart
and No. 51
on the
Billboard 200.
The album features
re-recorded versions of
"Rocks Off"
and
"Overture",
tracks from the band's
original independently released EP,
The Def Leppard E.P..
Other tracks are
re-recorded versions
of early demos,
some of which later appeared
on the 2020 box set
The Early Years 79–81.
The album was certified gold
by the RIAA
on
November 18th 1983
and platinum on
May 9th 1989.
"Wasted",
"Hello America"
and
"Rock Brigade"
were released as singles.
However,
the version of
"Wasted"
that appears on the single
is a different recording
from that of the LP,
as is its B-side,
"Hello America".
The spoken word intro to
"When the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
was performed by
Dave Cousins
of Strawbs.
Joe Elliott
had done the spoken portion
in earlier
live performances
and demo recordings
that showed up on
some early bootlegs.
In his biography,
Cousins claims that he
did his best
Laurence Olivier
impersonation
for the song's intro.
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