Joe Elliott said he feared no one would want to make a biopic about Def Leppard following the 2001 TV movie that he called “the biggest pile of shit ever made.” The heavily dramatized script contained ...

Never let it be said that VH1 doesn’t tackle the tough stuff. As soon as you heard that the music channel was doing a TV movie about Def Leppard, what one scene did you figure they’d shy away from ...

HYSTERIA: The Def Leppard Story. Tonight, 9 o’clock, VH1. 1 Star. There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have tracked the highs, lows and woes of the ’80s rock band Def Leppard and ...

When VH1 rolled out a “Behind the Music” on Def Leppard — one of its warts-and-all TV documentaries that showcase the meteoric rise (and often precipitous fall) of pop and rock acts — it seemed a ...

WHEN the VH1 video tape of “Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story” landed on my desk last week, I got very nervous. Oh, dear God no! Why me? I feared being trapped watching another one of those awful ...

It’s a long way from “The Breakfast Club” to “Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story,” from “Don’t You Forget About Me” to “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” In the ’80s cult hit “The Breakfast Club,” Anthony Michael ...

In a taping for VH1 on Saturday in Los Angeles, everyone from Pearl Jam, Tenacious D and Flaming Lips to X-Files spook David Duchovny, Office nerd Rainn Wilson and more showed up to fete The Who. The ...