The Adrenalize World Tour – also known as the Adrenalize "Seven Day Weekend" Tour – was a concert tour by British

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...

band

Def Leppard Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), a ...

to support the ''

Adrenalize ''Adrenalize'' is the fifth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 31 March 1992 through Mercury Records. It is the first album by the band recorded without guitarist Steve Clark who died in 1991 and the only one recorded ...

'' album, released in March 1992. It was their first tour without guitarist

Steve Clark ''yes'Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen Notable people with the name include: steve jops * Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people * Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people * Steve ...

, who died in January 1991 while the album was recorded. Former Dio and

Whitesnake Whitesnake are an English hard rock band formed in London in 1978. The group was originally put together as the backing band for singer David Coverdale, who had recently left Deep Purple. Though the band quickly developed into their own entit ...

guitarist

Vivian Campbell Vivian Patrick Campbell (born 25 August 1962) is a Northern Irish guitarist. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as a member of Dio (band), Dio, and has been a member of Def Leppard since 1992 (replacing Steve Clark after his death). Camp ...

joined six weeks before the tour began. The tour kicked off with a club show in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

on April 15, 1992. Campbell's first public appearance with the band, it was a warm-up for

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom for an audience of 72,000. The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis, d ...

on April 20 in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. In 1992 and early 1993, the tour was performed in the round, with the stage surrounded by the audience; a format Leppard first used on the 1987/1988 Hysteria World Tour. "We started the tour as a huge, long-haired, dressed-up, arena rock band," Campbell observed, "and we finished it looking like

Pearl Jam Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. The band's lineup consists of founding members Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guita ...

: wearing ratty jeans, growing goatees and cutting our hair. During the course of that fifteen-month tour, the entire musical landscape changed."

Opening acts

Ugly Kid Joe Ugly Kid Joe is an American hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, formed in 1989. The band's name spoofs the glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd's name. To date, Ugly Kid Joe have released five full-length albums, two compilation albums and ...

* Thunder *

Terrorvision ''TerrorVision'' is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film directed by Ted Nicolaou, produced and written by Albert and Charles Band and composed by Richard Band, all of whom would go on to found and work with Full Moon Features in 19 ...

Set lists

Taken from 15 April 1992 show in

# "Stagefright" # "Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" # "Gods of War" # "Die Hard the Hunter" # "Love Bites" # "Foolin'" # "Rock of Ages" # "Armageddon It" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Let's Get Rocked" # "Animal" # "Now I'm Here" (Queen cover) # "Photograph" # "Tear It Down" Taken from 23 June 1992 show in

Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

# "Stagefright" # "Tear It Down" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" (mid-song power loss) # "Make Love Like a Man" # Phil Collen guitar solo # "White Lightning" # "Foolin'" # "Animal" # Vivian Campbell guitar solo # "Gods of War" # "Rocket" # "S.M.C." # "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" (acoustic/electric) # "From the Inside" (live debut: Joe Elliott acoustic) # "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" # "Photograph" # "Armgeddon It" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Let's Get Rocked" # "Rock of Ages" Taken from 31 December 1992 show in

Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Arizona#List of cities and towns, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1 ...

# "Let's Get Rocked" # "Tear It Down" # "Women" # "Too Late for Love" # "Hysteria" # "Make Love Like A Man" # Phil Collen guitar solo # "White Lightning" # "Foolin'" # "Animal" # Vivian Campbell guitar solo # "Gods of War" # "Rocket" # "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" # "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad" # "Armageddon It" # "Rock of Ages" # "Pour Some Sugar on Me" # "Love Bites" # "Photograph"

Tour dates

Touring personnel

Def Leppard "The 7-Day Weekend Tour" Itinerary (September 30-October 11). Travel Rite Itineraries: San Rafael, CA 1992. Band: *

Joe Elliott Joseph Thomas "Joe" Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is an English–Irish rock singer, best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute ba ...

– Lead vocals, rhythm & acoustic guitar, keyboards * Phil Collen – Lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals *

– Lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals *

Rick Savage Richard Savage (born 2 December 1960) is an English musician best known for being the bass guitarist and one of the founding members of the English rock band Def Leppard. Savage and lead singer Joe Elliott are the only two remaining original ...

– Bass, keyboards, rhythm & acoustic guitars, backing vocals * Rick Allen – drums, backing vocals Management: * Malvin Mortimer – Tour managerYear End Top 100 Worldwide Tours 1992. ''Pollstar''. December 14, 1992. p 26. * Mark Spring – Production manager * Dick Adams – Tour accountant * Gary Perkins – Stage manager *

Jonathan Smeeton Jonathan Smeeton is a British lighting and production designer who was active in the UK from the late 1960s, and then in the US from late 1970s up to his retirement in 2018. Smeeton started out in the UK underground scene in the late 1960s. B ...

– Lighting/set designer * Butch Allen – Lighting director * Robert Scovill – Sound engineer * Phil Wilkey – Monitor engineer Crew: * Peter Lothian – Vari*Lite programmer/operator * Barry Branford – Intellabeam technician * David Sutherland – Bass technician * Tony Moon – Drum technician * Stan Schiller – Guitar technician * Liam Col – Guitar technician * Mick Panasci – Vari*Lite technician * Stewart Felix – Vari*Lite technician * J.R. "Weasel" Engington – Dimmer technician * Joe "Keebler" Campbell – Tracking technician * Ted Leamy – Head Sound technician * Larry Vodopivek – Sound technician * David Stogner – Sound technician * Mark Tooch – Sound technician * Charlie Passarelli – Head laser technician * Harald Kohl – Laser technician * Gordon Hum – Laser technician

References

{{Def Leppard Def Leppard concert tours 1992 concert tours 1993 concert tours