Album dossier / 1980
On Through the Night
Def Leppard · Heavy Metal/NWOBHM
Def Leppard's debut, produced by Tom Allom at Startling Studios (formerly John Lennon's Tittenhurst Park estate), re-recorded early EP and demo material and established the teenage Sheffield band as a leading light of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, going gold and then platinum in the US years after release.
Record facts
- Label
- Vertigo Records
- Producer
- N/A
- Chart peak
- N/A
- Notable tracks
- ★ Wasted
- ★ Hello America
- ★ Rock Brigade
Artist & discography
Complete 1980s Studio Discography
4 studio albums released from 1980–1989 by Def Leppard. Archived records link directly to full dossiers; remaining releases are queued for harvesting. MusicBrainz source.
Complete track listing · 11 tracks
- Rock Brigade
- Hello America
- Sorrow Is a Woman
- It Could Be You
- Satellite
- When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
- Wasted
- Rocks Off
- It Don’t Matter
- Answer to the Master
- Overture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Through_the_Night, https://www.discogs.com/master/31089-Def-Leppard-On-Through-The-Night · track listing: https://musicbrainz.org/release/814f2da3-429a-4bb1-87c6-0e3ae1bf81ad · cover art: coverartarchive.org
Last enriched: 2026-08-30