99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1987!
That year PLR welcomed Def Leppard to Hartford’s XL Center (which was called Hartford Civic Center at the time). Def Leppard hit the road in 1987 to support their fourth studio album “Hysteria,” which featured major hits like Animal, Pour Some Sugar on Me, Armageddon It, Hysteria and Love Bites and Rocket. It was Def Leppard’s best selling album, selling over 20 million copies worldwide.
Joining Def Leppard in Hartford was special guest Tesla, who opened the show.
Def Leppard
Tour: Hysteria
Special Guest: Tesla
Sunday October 11, 1987
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $16.50
Band Lineup: Joe Elliott (vocals), Steve Clark (guitar), Phil Collen (guitar), Rick Savage (bass), Rick Allen (drums)
Setlist*
- Stagefright
- Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)
- Women
- Another Hit and Run
- Too Late For Love
- Hysteria
- Guitar Solo
- Gods of War
- Die Hard The Hunter
- Bringin’ On The Heartbreak
- Foolin’
- Animal
- Pour Some Sugar On Me
- Let It Go
- Rock of Ages
- Photograph (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these live clips of Def Leppard in 1987