Def Leppard to release ‘Early Years: 79-81’ box set in March

Def Leppard will release a new box set, ‘Early Years: 79-81 on March 20th.  The 5CD package provides a comprehensive collection of the band’s work prior to the arrival of Phil Collen and the release of 1983’s multi-million selling ‘Pyromania’.

Included in the box set are the band’s first two albums – 1980’s ‘On Through The Night’ and 1981’s ‘High & Dry’, alongside the relevant b-sides and single releases.

The box set brings some fortunate news for those fans that chose not to buy 2018’s 7CD ‘The CD Box Set: Volume One’ due to owning the lion’s share of the content elsewhere, in that ‘The Early Years: 79-81’ also includes ‘The Def Leppard EP’ and all of the rarities from that set’s ‘Rarities’ disc.

In addition, a complete and unreleased live show from 1980 and a disc’s worth of radio sessions and other rarities is also included.

The full tracklist is below:

CD1 / On Through The Night (Remastered)

Rock Brigade
Hello America
Sorrow Is A Woman
It Could Be You
Satellite
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Wasted
Rocks Off
It Don’t Matter
Answer to The Master
Overture

CD2 / High ‘N’ Dry (Remastered)
Let It Go
Another Hit and Run
High N Dry (Saturday Night)
Bringin’ On the Heartache
Switch 625
You Got Me Runnin’
Lady Strange
On Through the Night
Mirror Mirror (Look into My Eyes)
No No No

CD3 / When The Walls Came Tumbling Down – Live In Oxford 26/04/1980
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
It Could Be You
Rock Brigade
Satellite
Medicine Man
Answer to the Master
When the Rain Falls
Sorrow Is a Woman
Good Morning Freedom
Don’t Matter to Me
Overture
Lady Strange
GetchaRocks Off
Hello America
Wasted
Ride into The Sun

CD4 / Too Many Jitterbugs (B-sides & Rarities)
Ride into The Sun – The Def Leppard EP
Getcha Rocks Off – The Def Leppard EP
The Overture – The Def Leppard EP
Wasted -Single
Hello America – Single
Rock Brigade – Unreleased Nick Tauber produced version
Glad I’m Alive – Unreleased Nick Tauber produced version
Good Morning Freedom – Single
Let It Go – Single Edit
Switch 625 – Single Edit
Bringin’ On the Heartbreak – Single Edit
Me and My Wine – Original Version
Bringin’ On the Heartbreak – Remix
Me and My Wine – Remix

CD5 / Raw: Early BBC Recordings
Andy Peebles Session – 07/06/1979
Glad I’m Alive
Sorrow Is A Woman
Wasted
Answer to The Master
Friday Rock Show Session, 03/10/1979
Satellite
Rock Brigade
Wasted
Good Morning Freedom
Live at the Reading Festival, 24/08/1980
Satellite / When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
Medicine Man
The Overture
Lady Strange
Getcha Rocks Off

Further reading:
DEF LEPPARD – ON THROUGH THE NIGHT
GIRL – SHEER GREED
GIRL – WASTED YOUTH