Leppard Tracks: Misty Dreamers, 1977 2008

by Julian Gill

"Leppard Tracks" concentrates on documenting the history of Def Leppard on an album-by-album basis. Song stories are detailed and other vignettes are offered to fill out the story, such as touring details, set lists, biographical "stories," and the ever important tangents that demonstrate the strange relationships within the music industry. This unofficial and unsanctioned work doesn't claim to be a first hand day-by-day account of the band's history. Nor is it complete - think of it more as a Def Buffet of sorts. As such this work strives to be a broad guide to the recording history of the band, but not a terse all-inclusive discography (which while interesting to a few would bore many to tears!). It doesn't aim to focus in any particular manner on the band.

474 pages, Paperback

First published July 24, 2008

Reviews

[CJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a fan of the band, I enjoyed the book and the information the author had put together. It was well researched. However, there were so many careless mistakes, especially in sentence grammar, that it made me wonder why it wasn't given a thorough check.

[Jeffery Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent. I learned things about the band I didn't know. It's not the regular sort of biography, but breaks the history of the band into "chunks" and talks alot about the music!