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“Welcome to the show…”

In 1979, Sounds journalist t’s Tuesday, June 5, 1979. Joe Elliott has just 54p!). And so it is that those academic
picked me up from Sheffield train station in comparisons fade rapidly and the atmosphere
and early Def Leppard a battered white Ford Escort van. After a becomes warm, comfortable and more than
champion Geoff Barton brief stop at Joe’s parents’ house for tea and just a little hazy. Especially after the passage of all

travelled to a Sheffield I biscuits, we arrive at Crookes Working these years…
Men’s Club – the scene of tonight’s gig by a An incredibly fresh-faced Def Leppard burst on
working men’s club fledgling Def Leppard. stage at about 10pm and make an immediate
to witness the birth of The club initially reminds me of my old school impression. Their music is high-powered heavy
dining room: unremarkable, high-ceilinged, lots of rock played to a degree of tightness usually only
the legend… light-coloured wooden tables and chairs, little achieved after a half-dozen gruelling American
cliques of people huddled haphazardly around. tours. Their recently released, independently
Picture: Ross Halfin
But then again you could never buy a scotch and produced Bludgeon Riffola EP, good as it is, doesn’t
Coke for 30p at my school (let alone a double for even hint at their live dynamism.

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