Forgive me for chopping up these quotes. I'm not trying to present them in any false context, but these statements are important.
Thank you MTV.
What Lynch says here was the exact thought I had.
DL showed up early on MTV with Photograph, and by the time Pour Some Sugar On Me made it's debut (on MTV of course, heaven forbid anyone release anything on the radio first), they were a full blown MTV band.
I like a couple of the songs on Hysteria, but I'm in agreement, Pyromania is a much better album.
I have to be honest, I'm like most of America, and didn't know any Def Leppard until they showed up on MTV.
So, as far as their first two albums, On Through The Night and High 'n' Dry, I'm familiar with a handful of cuts, but not educated enough to compare them to their MTV albums, and that's exactly what they were, too.
Oddly enough, I did a little looking around, and found out that Def Leppard, according to Wiki, never had a #1 in the UK. Has nothing to do with this post, just thought it was interesting.