November 20th 2022 - ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Formula 1 Grand Prix

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2022-11-20 Abu Dhabi, UAE - Yas Marina Circuit

Take What You Want
Let it Go
Animal
Foolin’
Armageddon It
Kick
Love Bites
Promises
Excitable
Rocket
Bringin on the heartbreak
Switch 625
Hysteria
Pour some sugar on me
Rock of ages
Photograph


HALL OF FAME LEGENDS DEF LEPPARD AND BRIT AWARD WINNER DAVE ADDED TO YASALAM AFTER-RACE CONCERTS LINE-UP FOR RECORD-BREAKING #ABUDHABIGP 2022

Rock legends Def Leppard confirmed to perform Sunday night at this year's Yasalam After-Race Concerts after this year's F1 season finale.

BRIT Award winner and acclaimed UK rap artist Dave set to thrill the crowds on Thursday 17th November

The acts join Swedish House Mafia and Kendrick Lamar to round out #AbuDhabiGP artist line-up for the region's biggest weekend of sport and entertainment

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With fewer than three weeks remaining of the 2022 Formula 1 calendar, excitement for the season finale is building as Abu Dhabi Motorsports Management and Flash Entertainment today announced that iconic UK outfit Def Leppard will bring the curtain down on Sunday, 20th November at the FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX 2022, with Dave playing the Yasalam After-Race Concert on Thursday, 17th November.

Bookending a full four-day line-up of global music superstars, the two world-class acts join multi-Platinum, Grammy-award winning artist Kendrick Lamar, and multi-Grammy nominated hip hop trio Swedish House Mafia performing at Etihad Park, the entertainment centrepiece of Yas Island.

The news comes as the Middle East's biggest entertainment weekend prepares to host its largest ever number of race goers and once again bring the world to the UAE, cementing further the emirate's global reputation as a hub for sporting events and excellence.

With more than 110 million albums sold worldwide and two prestigious Diamond Awards in the U.S., 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame® inductees Def Leppard continue to be one of the most important forces in rock music. Def Leppard's influential career includes numerous hit singles and ground-breaking multi-Platinum albums—including two of the best-selling albums of all time, Pyromania and Hysteria, capturing the group's legendary tracks, and bringing together classic Leppard hits such as Rock of Ages, Pour Some Sugar on Me and Foolin.

UK rap artist Dave will headline Thursday's line up, whose 2019 debut album Psychodrama was met with widespread critical acclaim, winning the prestigious Mercury Prize and named 'Album of the Year' at the BRIT Awards. The British producer, musician and songwriter has also collaborated with Drake and AJ Tracey.

Saif Al Noaimi, CEO, Abu Dhabi Motorsports Management, said: "With race weekend almost upon us, we are absolutely delighted to announce two more artists that build a fantastic four-day festival of global music superstars that will be entertaining our biggest ever crowds. Perfectly complimenting the on-track action, the off-track entertainment has something to offer a range of race goers and we are sure that the 14th edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will allow visitors from around the world to make some very special memories.

"Our revamped hospitality, new grandstand products and After-Race Concerts continue to build one of the best Grand Prix events in the world and we look forward to welcoming thousands of global F1 fans to Yas Island – the regional home of international sport and entertainment and Meeting Place of Champions."

John Lickrish, CEO, Flash Entertainment, added: "We're thrilled to complete the line-up for this year's Yasalam After-Race Concerts with two artists who span multiple genres and each bring something different to the annual celebration of motorsport and entertainment in Abu Dhabi. As a pioneer of entertainment, our commitment to diversify the Yasalam offering each year ensures we engage with as wide an audience as possible, catering to a multitude of musical tastes and creating unmissable experiences for F1 fans. The announcement of Def Leppard and Dave certainly delivers on our ambitions."

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Attendance only available to those who have tickets to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. Info here: www.yasmarinacircuit.com/en/formula1/yasalam-after-race-concerts

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Looks like this is why the LIL shows were cancelled

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Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen says Abu Dhabi F1 is 'another level to step up to'
The British group are enjoying a tour playing the biggest shows of their four-decade career

Saeed Saeed
Nov 18, 2022

In a saturated concert market, one particular tour is a resounding success.

British band Def Leppard's trek with fellow rockers Motley Crue has been slaying US stadiums throughout the summer, selling 1.3 million tickets and earning $173.5 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.

Four decades into their career, not only is it Def Leppard’s biggest tour, but it has set the stage for a run of further stadium concerts in the UK and Ireland next summer.

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will experience the hype on Sunday, when the group perform the prestigious race-day concert.

In an exclusive interview with The National, guitarist Phil Collen says the band will arrive in the UAE capital a well-oiled machine.

As a fan of boxing, he uses former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson as an analogy to explain the band’s durability.

“He was the most dangerous fighter in the world and he really only lost when he stopped training and putting the work in that was required,” Collen says.

"This is how we always approached it as a band and why we are still here. You need to keep up with the work you do, otherwise it will slip away."

Another reason why Def Leppard’s star remains bright, Collen says, is that they are part of a handful of groups delivering the kind of anthemic and guilt-free rock thrills increasingly missing from the current generation of guitar bands.

"It's about celebration. This means loud guitars, big lyrics and everyone chanting along," he says.

"We came from that era and it is hard to find that now because many haven't got that kind of endurance.

“And that's really the trick: It's about coming from the other side singing and playing better."

'A cross between AC/DC and Queen'

Formed in Sheffield in 1977, Def Leppard built a profile as leaders of a movement dubbed the "new wave of British heavy metal" and found success through a series of well-received early albums, including 1981's High 'n' Dry, whose single Bringin' on the Heartbreak became one of the first rock videos played on the fledgling music channel MTV.

Then with the release of 1987 album Hysteria, Def Leppard became global stars.

Their energetic blend of rock muscle and euphoric hooks resulted in half a dozen hits, including Pour Some Sugar on Me and Animal, and the album sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.

In addition to releasing “the rock version” of Michael Jackson's blockbuster 1982 album Thriller, Collins says Hysteria is the realisation of Def Leppard’s career mission.

“We wanted our music to be a cross between AC/DC and Queen,” he says.

“It’s about having that powerful sound with great melodies.”

It was an approach that initially didn’t go down well with the harsher sounds of UK’s metal communities.

"We realised early on that we mustn’t worry about that and the objective is to create stuff that we love with the hope that somebody else loves it as well," he says.

"Since we loved the bands, we thought 'wouldn’t it be great to create a hybrid of both'.

"We wanted to create music that we personally can be fans of."

And that meant overcoming challenges in and outside the studio.

The recording of Hysteria was beset with struggles, including a cost blowout that made the release, at an eye-watering $3.5 million, one of the most expensive rock albums ever recorded.

Even more impressive were the dynamic tracks being performed by drummer Rick Allen after losing his left arm in a horrific car accident just before the first batch of recording sessions in 1984.

Then there were the songs themselves, such as Love Bites and Gods of War, all immaculately produced by band Svengali Mutt Lange and featuring complex three-part harmonies and interlocking guitar arpeggios.

"Love Bites is essentially a studio song because it has all these interesting vocals and it became number one on the Billboard charts before we even played it live," Collen says.

"So we had to go back in the studio and basically learn how to play it live in concerts. It was really scary at first, but eventually it worked out and now it’s a major part of the show."

Ready for the challenge

An interesting aspect of the Abu Dhabi concert will be the songs performed from new album Diamond Star Halos.

Released in May, the group’s first album in seven years finds them channeling the heady sounds of the Hysteria era with tracks bombastic in scope and good humoured, such as the churning Liquid Dust and tongue-in-cheek U Rock Mi.

More than an hour long, it is one of Def Leppard’s longest albums and was born out of the monotony of Covid-19.

“We were really supposed to do only an EP of four songs and just go on tour, but with the tour constantly being delayed we just kept writing,” he says.

“There was a lot of inspiration. We were all apart, we just kept sending parts of songs to each other and we found a way to create something good out of the whole Covid experience.”

With the album cracking the top of 10 of the US charts and new songs slipping easily into a set list full of greatest hits, Collen is confident Def Leppard’s Abu Dhabi show will leave the crowd smiling.

"We all feel good, sound great and we will put in that extra effort. I know I will be in the gym and kicking the boxing bag on the morning of the show," Collen says.

"It was massive ambition that got us where we are today and I feel we still have that. We have played stadiums before but not with this consistency and quality every night.

“And with the Formula 1 in Abu Dhabi, this is just another level for us to step up to and we are looking forward to it.”

Def Leppard performs on Sunday as part of the Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix. Access to the show is exclusive to Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ticket holders. Tickets are available online at www.yasmarinacircuit.com and through the Yas Marina Circuit Call Centre on 800 927 or [phone].

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Final show of the year today.

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Video (deletes after 24 hours):www.instagram.com/stories/defleppard/2975595825300457249/

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Not sure when they started, but this starts with Let It Go. May be the opening song.

Let It Go
Animal
Foolin'
Armageddon It
Kick

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Love that they've taken the full production.

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Love Bites

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Promises

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Ok.... Looks like they started with TWYW at 9:15PM local.

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Rocket

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Hysteria
PSSOM

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To be confirmed, but.... looks like they played The Stadium Tour setlist (version 2) but omitted all or part of the acoustic set. They started at 9:15PM and were already finishing PSSOM before 10:30PM. Only ROA and Photograph after that so it looks like they played less than 90 minutes, which leads me to conclude that they either played only TSB or didn't play acoustic at all.

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Nov 20, 2022 10:41:49 GMT -8 CindyJ said:

To be confirmed, but.... looks like they played The Stadium Tour setlist (version 2) but omitted all or part of the acoustic set. They started at 9:15PM and were already finishing PSSOM before 10:30PM. Only ROA and Photograph after that so it looks like they played less than 90 minutes, which leads me to conclude that they either played only TSB or didn't play acoustic at all.

No acoustic, but did Promises, Excitable, and Desert Song.

JK about Desert Song.....