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Yeah! (Def Leppard album)

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Released
  
23 May 2006

Length
  
53:43

Release date
  
23 May 2006

Label
  
Island Records

Recorded
  
2003–06

Artist
  
Def Leppard

Producer
  
Def Leppard

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock

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Yeah! is the ninth studio album by English hard rock Def Leppard. It is the first cover album by the band. It was originally to be released on 20 September 2005, but it was announced on 31 March 2006 that the album would be released on 23 May 2006. The album charted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 and No. 52 on the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

Def leppard space oddity


Artwork

The accompanying booklet contains photographs of the band members recreating classic images from '70s album art.

  • Rick Savage – Freddie Mercury from the album Queen II
  • Vivian Campbell – Marc Bolan from T. Rex's Electric Warrior
  • Joe Elliott – David Bowie from the rear cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
  • Rick Allen – Lou Reed, Transformer
  • Phil Collen – Iggy Pop, Raw Power

    • There are also four group photographs in the CD booklet – on the cover, the centre, inside back cover and the back cover.

  • The inside back cover (back of the CD holder) has a picture with the original triangle Def Leppard logo (from the On Through the Night album), with a shaft of light passing through it and creating a rainbow, a la the cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

    • Personnel

  • Joe Elliott – lead vocals, piano, all instruments "Space Oddity", art direction on inner sleeve
  • Phil Collen – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Stay with Me" and "Search and Destroy", all instruments on "Search and Destroy"
  • Vivian Campbell – guitar, backing vocals
  • Rick Savage – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals and all instruments on "Dear Friends"
  • Rick Allen – drums, percussion

    • Additional personnel

  • Justin Hawkins – backing vocals on "Hell Raiser"
  • Marc Danzeisen – drums and harmony/backing vocals on "American Girl"
  • t42design – artwork
  • Vartan – art direction on cover
  • Clay Patrick McBride – photography on cover art, back cover, trays
  • Mick Rock – photography on inner sleeve

    • Songs

    120th Century Boy3:41
    2Rock On2:53
    3Hanging on the Telephone2:23

    References

    Yeah! (Def Leppard album) Wikipedia
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