Def Leppard To Release “The Early Years” Box Set Next Month!

Todd Hancock Feb 2, 2020

Great news Def Leppard fans! They’re releasing a box set, “The Early Years 79-81”, on March 20th!

“The Early Years 79-81” box set will have the band’s first two albums, “On Through The Night” (1980) and “High ‘N’ Dry” (1981), remastered by their sound engineer Ronan McHugh!

The deluxe set will have five CDs with B-sides, rarities and re-mix versions, Radio One sessions, “Live From Reading” and the first-ever appearance of an unreleased and newly mixed show from Oxford in 1980.

The album also features the Nick Tauber-produced version of “Rock Brigade”, which was originally pencilled as a single for the U.K. but was never released at the time. Check it out below!

Singer Elliott says: “Well, the fans asked, and we listened! Really excited to have our early years reworked with a load of rare material including the newly unearthed ‘Live At The Oxford New Theatre’, recorded on the 1980 U.K. tour …. It’s been a trip putting this boxset together and I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we did working on it!”

Here’s the complete track listing.

What has 9 arms and rocks? The upcoming Def Leppard box set!

 

Written by Todd Hancock

Todd Hancock

Todd Hancock is a Canadian radio personality and podcaster. He's best known as a longtime Afternoon host (2002 - 2014) on CFOX-FM (99.3 The Fox) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Todd started his radio career in 1996 and is a multiple award winner with The Georgia Strait, The Westender & Vancouver Province readers. The Toddcast Podcast launched in January 2015 and continues to build online momentum! toddhancock.ca for more!

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