![]() It’s a good thing we were in our mid 20s, because we would have been in cardiac arrest after five songs.” When you listen to the tape, you can hear me getting out of breath big-time. For us Englishmen, the only drawback with doing it in Denver was the altitude. It was a lot of fun-the director (Wayne Isham) auditioning girls that you wanted to shove against the fence down at the front, all the usual rock ‘n’ roll trappings. I described it as a 60-by-40-foot boxing ring without the ropes. “We wanted to make an event, so we put the stage in the middle. The band members financed the filming themselves-“We couldn’t get the record company to pay for that one,” Elliott said-and the project served as a memorial to their massive high-tech circular stage construction. And we wound up with a hell of a lot of good footage. Denver was the first place we were doing two nights, and they were both sold out. On that leg of the tour, the Hysteria album hadn’t really taken off nationwide. We wanted to do it in the best possible place. “So we decided to do the whole show and see what we got. “But then we said to hang on a minute-we’d be daft to shoot just one song,” singer Joe Elliott recalled. Initially, the superstar British quintet had planned to film a performance video for the hit single “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” To commemorate the 227-date “Hysteria” world tour, Def Leppard filmed a concert video at Denver’s McNichols Arena on February 12 and 13, 1988, titled In the Round–In Your Face. Def Leppard at Denver’s McNichols Arena, 1988
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