Def Leppard released their album ‘Adrenalize’ on March 31, 1992 to massive success. The album sold 4 million copies and went to #1 in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in Swtitzerland. It spawned 6 singles and in a time when 80’s Rock was dying out, somehow, Def Leppard still succeeded.

It was the first album without Steve Clark on guitar and would be the first tour without him as well. The tour kicked off with a club show in Dublin, Ireland on April 15, 1992 and was the first with Vivian Campbell on guitar. It was also a warm-up for the massive Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on April 20, 1992 which would see Def Leppard perform to over 70,000 people and technically introduce the world to Vivian Campbell. It was a rip roaring success. The tour then officially started on May 19, 1992 in Madrid, Spain and would last the rest of 1992 and not end until September 1993.

Some of the opening acts were Ugly Kid Joe, Thunder and Terrorvision (who I know nothing about). It was a massive success as usual as the performed In the Round again and as you’d expect, I did catch the show on November 24, 1992 at the Omni in Atlanta, Ga.

As a tribute to the show, we will go through the Tour Book from that Tour, but I just bought this so it is not from the actual show I attended. Someone else bought and decided to sell and I happily obliged.

The program starts out the 1992 tour dates which leads me to believe this was from one of those shows from 1992…

We then get an essay on the band and this time around we get a write-up on each member of the band as well which the Hysteria Tour did not do…

Some great stage and band pictures…

Unlike the Hysteria book as well, we actually get individual pages for each band member and of course, Joe Elliott is up first…

Then we get Phil Collen…

A little break with more live shots and band shots…

Back to the band with Rick Savage…

Then Rick Allen…

And finally, let’s welcome to the world…Vivian Campbell…

And more band shots…

And to wrap it up we get the Merch page and the thank you mention to all the road crew which they have a lot of those people…

And one last shot of the back cover…

And that is another one down and one left to go. Come back next week as we jump about 10 years in to the future (from this point) for the final one in the collection (final one at this point in time)…

Here is a list of all the Tour Books we have reviewed over the years. Links are provided so you can go see some history.

Alice Cooper:

• Welcome To My Nightmare Tour (1975)
• Guilty Tour (1977)

Kiss Tour Book Series:

• Animalize Tour (1984)
• Asylum Tour (1985)
• Alive / Worldwide Tour (1996-1997)
• Alive / Worldwide Tour Special Edition (1997)
• World Domination Tour (2003-2004
• 40th Anniversary Tour – Decades of Decibels (2014)
• End of the Road Tour (2019) – Coming Soon

Bon Jovi:

• Bon Jovi – New Jersey Tour / Brotherhood Tour (1988)
• Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi Tour (2011)

Rush:

• Rush – Power Windows Tour (1985)
• Rush – Roll The Bones Tour (1991)
• Rush – Counterparts Tour (1994)
• Rush – Test For Echos Tour (1996)

Def Leppard:

• Def Leppard – Hysteria U.S. Tour (1988)
• Def Leppard – Adrenalize: The 7-Day Weekend Tour (1992-1993)