Product Details

• Actors: Def Leppard
• Format: Best of, Color, 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: 201 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005RZPJ
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,391 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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After its 1987 album Hysteria went through the roof, where could Def Leppard go next? This three-hour-plus program shows: the 90-minute Visualize presents the British band's videos from 1988 (where Historia ends) to its mid-'90s albums Adrenalize, Vault, and Slang. The two-hour Video Archive compiles rare performance footage and videos, including Live from Don Valley Stadium, which immortalizes the band's triumphant 1993 return to hometown Sheffield for a sold-out show (at 45 minutes and eight songs, it's obviously not the entire performance). Next comes 40 minutes' worth of six videos from 1993 to '95, and finally a 1995 acoustic performance from a small Sheffield club that clocks in at 30 minutes and includes stripped-down versions of "Armageddon It" and "Animal," and a surprise cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust." --Kevin Filipski

Product Description

Visualize (1993)- Contains all of the videos made between 1989 and 1993, including for the triple platinum album Adrenalize, with additional interview footage. Songs: Rocket, Switch 625 (Steve Clark Tribute), Solo Projects/Making Videos, Let's Get Rocked, Vivian Campbell Joins Def Leppard, Make Love Like A Man, I Wanna Touch U, Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad, Tonight, Heaven Us, Fans/Off Stage Life, Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion), Return to Sheffield, Two Steps Behind (Live), Love Bites (Live), Photograph (Live). Video Archive (1995), a compendium of eight live tracks from a hometown Sheffield, England 1993 concert; five videos from 1993 through 1995 (including the epic eight-minute version of "When Love & Hate Collide"), and six live tracks from a 1995 Sheffield concert during which Def Leppard offered an acoustic performance. Let's Get Rocked, Foolin', Rocket, Two Steps Behind, Armageddon It, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock Of Ages, Love Bites, When Love & Hate Collide, Two Steps Behind, Action, Miss You In A Hearbeat, When Love & Hate Collide (Epic 8 Minute Version), Sheffield, England (October 1995), Armaggedon It, When Love & Hate Collide, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Ziggy Stardust. Includes: Photo Gallery; Discography; Interview with the Band.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Def Leppard DVD's!!!, March 12, 2005

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

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I love Def Leppard!!! They are my favorite band of all time!!! I have had the Visualize and Video Archive on VHS but when it came to DVD in one collection, I bought it right away. This DVD is one of the best DVD's from Def Leppard. It has the music video's for Rocket, Switch 625 which is a tribute for Steve Clark, Let's Get Rocked (one of their coolest videos with really cool and humorous animation!!), Make Love Like A Man (another favorite of mine), Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad (My favorite rock ballad of all time next to Love Bites, I love this video and Joe Elliott looks so good in it!!!), Tonight, Heaven Is (a video I never saw on MTV, maybe it was never shown?), I Wanna Touch U (another video I never saw on MTV), Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion), When Love & Hate Collide (the original video), Two Steps Behind (a song that was from the Last Action Hero soundtrack), Action (another cool video that I never saw on MTV), Miss You In A Heartbeat(the MTV video), and an epic 8 minute version of When Love & Hate Collide that is like a small movie with dialog throughout the video.

There are tons of live performances of Two Steps Behind, Love Bites, Photograph, Let's Get Rocked, Foolin', Rocket, Armageddon It, Pour Some Sugar On Me, and Rock Of Ages which are from a concert in Sheffield, England. There is also an acoustic performance from Sheffield, England of songs Two Steps Behind, Armageddon It, When Love & Hate Collide, Animal, Pour Some Sugar On Me and a cover of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

In addition to the music video's and live performances, there are tons and tons of interviews, behind the scenes footage, a few shots of perfomances with Ben E. King (Stand By Me) and some other live perfomances they did. They also tell what inspired the song Let's Get Rocked and how the video was made. There are so many funny and informative things on this DVD and any fan of Def Leppard must get this DVD, it's awesome. And some people say that the sound quality is very poor but let me tell you something. I have watched this DVD without having a surround sound system, only on my 5 year old 25" TV and it sounds perfect just that way and when I did watch it once at my friends' house using his surround system, even though the DVD isn't really made for surround sound, the audio sounded even better than on my TV. Even if the DVD doesn't say surround sound 5.1 or whatever, if you do play it with surround sound speakers, you will hear sound and music coming out of every speaker and it will sound almost exactly the way surround sound sounds. There is no problem with the sound. It's perfect! I own both the Visualize/Video Archive and Historia/In The Round In Your Face DVD's and both are must buy's for any Def Leppard fan. These are the ultimate collections of Def Leppard Videos and footage you could ever want. I will be watching these DVD's for years and years to come. I also own the Classic Albums DVD Hysteria which just basically has everything you could want to know about the making of the Hysteria album and so all three DVD's are in my collection and are must buy's but definitely the Visualize/Video Archive and Historia/In The Round In Your Face DVD's are the best!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LET'S GET ROCKED!!!, March 30, 2002

By	Edward Morales (College Station, TX) - See all my reviews

Both of the Def Leppard DVD's ("Historia/In The Round, In Your Face" and "Visualize/Video Archive") are excellent; the high point of "Visualize/Video Archive" has to be the amazing live version of "Rocket" from the band's homecoming performance in Sheffield, England, with Joe Elliott throwing in a few verses from Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell tearing a hole in the sky with some killer solos, and Rick "Sav" Savage and Rick "The Thundergod" Allen proving why they are the best rhythm section in rock. Just do yourself a favor and buy these excellent DVD's - they are more than worth it!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Love It!!..., March 25, 2002

By	KCMKola "kace" (Norfolk, VA United States) - See all my reviews

I am a major fan of Def Leppard, so this DVD is awesome for me. I especially enjoyed the clips of them behind the scenes and doing interviews over the years. It took me a minute to realize that these vignettes are at the end of the videos, so you either have to watch the video, or go to the end and rewind back into it. The live performances were good. I have never had the chance to see them live, so this was great. The accoustic performance was excellent. I wish it had more "bonus materials" than one interview and the discography. Overall, it was great and highly recommend this to anyone who likes good music.