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Euphoria is the seventh studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 8 June 1999 in the United States and on 14 June 1999 in the United Kingdom by Mercury Records. The album aimed to return to their signature sound made famous by the band in the 1980s. It was produced by the band with Pete Woodroffe. The album charted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 and No. 11 on the UK Albums Chart. It includes the song "Promises," which hit the number one spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.

Euphoria
Studio album by Def Leppard
Released	8 June 1999 (US)
Recorded	May 1998 – March 1999
Studio	Joe's Garage, Studios 1 and 2 (Dublin, Ireland)
Genre	Glam metal[1][2] pop metal[1] heavy metal[1]
Length	51:07
Label	Mercury
Producer	Pete Woodroffe Def Leppard
Def Leppard chronology
Slang (1996) Euphoria (1999) X (2002)
Singles from Euphoria
"Promises"/"Back in Your Face" Released: May 1999 (US) [upper-alpha 1] "Paper Sun" Released: 1999 "Goodbye" Released: September 1999 "Day After Day" Released: 2000

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[3]
Q	[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]

Overview

Following Slang, the band was initially unsure of which direction to take ^{[citation needed]} upon reconvening in April 1998. "We just let ourselves go in any way we wanted," recalled Joe Elliott. With Slang we did: we said we're not gonna do the typical Def Leppard things. But with Euphoria we didn't rule them out… because it had been eight [sic] years since Adrenalize. That's a long time to have abandoned your main style of music. So we embraced it."[6]

Former producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange returned for four days. "It was a bit weird, because he wasn't working the same way," recalled Elliott. "He wasn't hands-on. He was more observant. He'd say, 'Stop,' and make a suggestion… We also wrote another song where we did kind of start from scratch. We said, 'Let's do something really off the wall.' That ended up being the song 'All Night' – all groovy noises and orgasmic songs."[6] Three songs were co-written with Lange, who performed backing vocals (as he had on other albums): "It's Only Love", "All Night" and "Promises".

A song first recorded by Vivian Campbell's side band Clock, "To Be Alive", received a Leppard makeover. For the first time since 1981's High 'n' Dry, an instrumental was included: Phil Collen's "Disintegrate". This instrumental was known before as "Spanish Sky", a ballad that evolved into this track.^{[citation needed]}

1996 Formula One racing champion Damon Hill, a neighbour of Rick Savage, would contribute a guitar solo to the track "Demolition Man".

In its first week of release, Euphoria sold over 98,000 units in the US and just missed the Top 10 of the Billboard 200, reaching No. 11. First single "Promises" topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in June 1999, a spot the band had not held in six years.

Euphoria would later be certified gold in the US, Canada and Japan. The album-supporting tour stretched from May 1999 to September 2000.

The album was released for the first time on vinyl on 21 June 2019, as a part of The Collection: Volume 2 box set.[7]

Reception

Euphoria received fairly positive reviews. Rating the album 4 out of 5, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic notes in his retrospctive assessment that despite the band returning to their signature sound "no longer guarantees a hit at the close of the '90s", Euphoria is "a tight, attractive album with more than its share of big hooks, strong riffs, and memorable melodies." He concludes by saying that "what's best about Euphoria is that it's utterly not self-conscious. Def Leppard feels free to try straight pop, appropriate Gary Glitter riffs, or play straight metal, without caring whether it's hip or commercial. That doesn't mean Euphoria is a classic, but it does mean that it's their most appealing effort in over a decade."[8]

Greg Kot of Rolling Stone, however, was more critical. He notes that "the defining characteristic of Euphoria is its bloodlessness, from the robotic drum tracks to the disconcertingly inhuman tone of those trademark massed vocal choruses", concluding that "the flesh-and-blood Def Leppard apparently never made it out of the Eighties alive."[9]

Track listing

Personnel

Def Leppard

• Joe Elliott – lead vocals
• Phil Collen – guitar, vocals
• Vivian Campbell – guitar, vocals
• Rick Savage – bass guitar, vocals
• Rick Allen – drums

Additional musicians

• Robert John "Mutt" Lange – additional vocals (on "Promises" and "All Night"), additional guitars (on "All Night")
• Damon "Demon" Hill – end guitar solo (on "Demolition Man")
• Ciaran McGoldrick – hey's & claps (on "Back in Your Face")
• Gary Sullivan – hey's & claps (on "Back in Your Face")
• Ricky Warwick – hey's & claps (on "Back in Your Face")

Technical personnel

• Pete Woodroffe – producer, engineer, mixing engineer (at The Townhouse, London)
• Ronan McHugh – engineer
• Ger McDonnell – engineer
• Bob Ludwig – mastering engineer (at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine)
• Andie Airfix – artwork
• Andy Earl – photography

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"Promises"	Mainstream Rock (USA)[23]	1
		UK Singles Chart[24]	41
	"Paper Sun"	Mainstream Rock (USA)[23]	11
	"Goodbye"	UK Singles Chart[24]	54
2000	"Day After Day"	Mainstream Rock (USA)[23]	22
	"21st Century Sha La La La Girl"	Billboard Heritage Rock[25]	40

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[26]	Gold	50,000^
Japan (RIAJ)[27]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[28]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

На других языках

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[de] Euphoria (Def-Leppard-Album)

Euphoria ist das siebte Studioalbum der britischen Hard-Rock-Band Def Leppard. Es wurde 1999 veröffentlicht.

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- [en] Euphoria (Def Leppard album)

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[es] Euphoria (álbum de Def Leppard)

Euphoria es el séptimo álbum de estudio de la banda de hard rock británica Def Leppard, lanzado en 1999.[1] El álbum marcó el retorno al sonido que caracterizaba a la banda a finales de la década de 1980 y principios de los años 1990, luego del acercamiento al rock alternativo que representó Slang.[2] Fue producido por la banda y Pete Woodroffe. Siguiendo la baja comercial de Slang, la banda inicialmente se encontraba insegura sobre qué rumbo tomar con respecto a un nuevo disco. Aunque los fanáticos acogieron de mejor forma esta nueva producción, el disco no pudo lograr las ventas obtenidas por álbumes como Pyromania o Hysteria. El disco se ubicó en la posición número 11 en la lista estadounidense Billboard 200[3] y se logró posicionar en la misma ubicación en la lista de éxitos británica UK Albums Chart.[4]

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[ru] Euphoria (альбом Def Leppard)

Euphoria (в переводе с англ. — «эйфория») — седьмой студийный альбом британской рок-группы Def Leppard, выпущенный в 1999 году. С этим альбомом Def Leppard вернулись к более привычному для них звучанию после выхода несколько экспериментального диска Slang. Альбом достиг 11 места в UK Albums Chart и 11 — в Billboard 200. За первую неделю после релиза Euphoria была продана в количестве более 98 000 экземпляров в США и едва не попала в топ-10, поднявшись до 11-го места. Первый сингл «Promises» достиг вершины Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks в июне 1999 года, чего группа не могла добиться на протяжении шести лет. Альбом стал золотым в США, Канаде и Японии. Турне в поддержку альбома продолжалось с мая 1999 до сентября 2000 года.

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