Product Details

• Actors: Def Leppard
• Format: Best of, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Island / Mercury
• DVD Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Run Time: 177 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005RZPK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,960 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In the mid and late 1980s, Def Leppard was the biggest-selling rock band around, and the two programs on this DVD collection hark back to the British quintet's commercial heyday. Historia is an 85-minute look at the band's videos circa 1980-1988, from its debut, "Hello America," to its huge radio hits "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and "Love Bites." These videos, either silly "concepts" or lip-synched performances, are par for the early-MTV course. In the Round, in Your Face is a 90-minute concert culled from the 1988 Hysteria world tour; the excited fans are as much the show as the band, especially when hit after hit, from the opening "Stagefright" to the closing "Photograph," is played. --Kevin Filipski

Product Description

Historia (1988)/In The Round, In Your Face (1999) includes 5 bonus videos: "Slang," "Work It Out," "All I Want Is Everything," "Goodbye," and "Promises." "Historia" songs: Hello America, Let It Go, High 'N' Dry, Bringin' on the Heartbreak (Version I with Pete Willis), Photograph, Rock of Ages, Foolin', Too Late For Love, Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop), Bringin' on the Heartbreak (Version II with Phil Collen), Me and My Wine, Women, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me (U.K. Version), Hysteria, Armageddon It (Live), Pour Some Sugar On Me (U.S. Version), and Love Bites. "In the Round in Your Face" songs: Stagefright, Rock! Rock (Til You Drop), Women, Too Late For Love, Hysteria, Gods of War, Die Hard the Hunter, Bringin' on the Heartbreak, Foolin', Armageddon It, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock of Ages, and Photograph. Includes: Photo Gallery; Discography; Interview with the Band.

Customer Reviews

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40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like a Def Leppard ice cream sundae..........:), January 13, 2002

By	Numnuts "jammyjammy2001" (NY ,United States) - See all my reviews

What a treat to discover that Def Leppard was releasing some of their best VHS tapes onto DVD. Although Def Leppard may have been slagged unfairly as a "hair band", they truely had some of the most ear candy songs with a healthy sprinkling of melodic guitar solos from the eighties. I was lucky enough to see a couple of their live shows back then, and if you are a fan of over the top metal concert spectaculars, as there were back then, you will like the DVD (especially if you like lasers). As a fan of DVDs, I particularly enjoy the concert DVDs because of the fact you can virtually turn a room into a concert hall-DVD's are that good. My personal favorite, although all the tunes are great would be "Turning On The Heartbreak" with the acoustic intro. As a last note, this performance includes the late,great Steve Clark, who along with Phil Collen created that wonderful twin "wall of sound" melodic guitar attack for the Leps. Steve, you are still greatly missed. Lep fans, I hope you enjoy this treat as much as I do whom miss great shows and music from alot of the crap that is out today..........

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Def Leppard DVD EVER!!!!, March 12, 2005

By	Joy Elizabeth Teets (Fairfax, VA USA) - See all my reviews

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Def Leppard is my favorite band of all time and always will be!!! I have both Historia and In The Round In Your Face on VHS and when it came to a DVD collection, I bought it right away! Historia is the best music video collection I have ever seen or owned. It has all the videos from the 80's except Rocket but that's on my other DVD Visualize/Video Archive so it's not a big deal. The music videos are Hello America (their very first video), Let It Go, High 'N' Dry, Bringin' On The Heartbreak with Pete Willis, Photograph, Rock Of Ages (one of my favorite videos because it reminds me of a movie, it's just really cool to watch), Foolin', Too Late For Love, Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop), Bringin' On The Heartbreak with Phil Collen (another cool video and Bringin' On The Heartbreak happens to be my 3rd fav rock ballad of all time!!), Me And My Wine (a really funny and cool video and it was taped in a house and I have a feeling it's in England and it's really cool, the song isn't available on any U.S. CD's so I had to order an import CD but the song is awesome!), Women (I'll tell you, this video is one of my all time favorite videos because of the way Joe Elliott sings and moves and looks and it's cool seeing this boy with this comic book in it that is telling a story about what the song is about, it's just a really cool video and it's one of my fav's!!), Animal (another favorite video where they're at the circus!!), Pour Some Sugar On Me (the U.K. video that I don't think was ever shown even in England but I could be wrong and I totally love this video because it's very humorous with the guys playing the music, Joe singing in this house and this woman who I guess is a neighbor is trying to just destroy this house where the Leps are performing and it's very funny at the very end. I think MTV should have played this video because in some ways, it's better than the other one and this video was also for the album version of the song), Hysteria (another favorite, it's cool to see Joe wearing a suit), Armageddon It (the Live video that was shown on MTV and again, one of my fav's), Pour Some Sugar On Me (the U.S. version, MTV video and the song happens to be my favorite song of all time from Def Leppard and I love both versions of the song, the video version and album version), and Love Bites (this song is my favorite rock ballad of all time and I love the video, it plays after the end credits and it's cool to see the words "If You've Got Love In Your Sights, Watch Out, Love Bites" on the screen right before the song comes on).

I love how they made the Historia where they have this old-style music playing in between almost every music video and they have this information on the screen and it's made to look like it's the 20's or 30's or something and it's very artistic, I love it!!
I love all the music videos from Historia and wish they would do more videos like it today!!! These videos are so much better than anything that has been out in over a decade!!!

The live performances from In The Round In Your Face are awesome and there is a very funny part where Joe talks after one of the solos and it's how he says it that makes it so funny. All the songs live are Stagefright (the perfect show opener because in the lyrics it says "Welcome To My Show", awesome!!), Rock! Rock! (Til You Drop), Women, To Late For Love, Hysteria, Gods Of War, Die Hard The Hunter, Bringin' On The Heartbreak, Foolin', Armageddon It, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock Of Ages, and Photograph. There are also a few solos throughout the concert and it's really cool.

There are some bonus videos for Slang, Work It Out, All I Want Is Everything, Goodbye, Promises and an interview and discography.

This DVD collection is a must buy for any Def Leppard fan in addition the DVD of Visualize/Video Archive and I also have the Classic Albums Hysteria DVD that has the making of the album. These 3 DVDs are must buy's for any Def Leppard fan!! But my favorite is Historia/In The Round In Your Face because my favorite songs and videos are on it and Joe Elliott looks really good on it!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The VHS tapes on DVD - and little else..., August 11, 2004

By	Eric Skovan (NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're a Def Leppard fan I still recommend this DVD. If for no other reason than it being so much easier, on DVD rather than VHS, to skip around both recordings to play your favorite tracks.

Unfortunately though, there's little extra. They did include a few videos from Slang, which is nice because, like most fans, I never saw these on MTV. There's also a ten minute or so interview with the band, but its reveals absolutely nothing new. AND the interview takes place in the corner of some office with a shakey camera and almost unbearably bad, echoey, open-mike audio!

Also the DVD transfer is mediocre at best. It doesn't look like they bothered striking a fresh print from the film negatives for this DVD release. Its not much better than if you captured & burned your own DVD from your VHS copies!

But, as I said, if you're fan its still worth buying now, because I doubt any improved, 'Special Edition' versions will ever come out after these.