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Hysteria is the fourth studio album by English rock band Def Leppard, released on 3 August 1987, by Mercury Records. The album is the follow-up to the band's 1983 breakthrough, Pyromania. Hysteria's creation took over three years and was plagued by delays, including the aftermath of the car accident on 31 December 1984 that cost drummer Rick Allen his left arm. Subsequent to the album's release, Def Leppard published a book titled Animal Instinct: The Def Leppard Story, written by Rolling Stone magazine senior editor David Fricke, on the three-year recording process of Hysteria and the difficult times the band endured through the mid-1980s. Lasting 62 minutes and 32 seconds, it is the band's longest studio album to date. Hysteria was the band's third and final album to be produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Accordingly to Joe Elliott, many names for the album were floated around including a joke title "Trouble Up Mill." Other titles that were considered were 'Paranoia' and 'Animal Instincts'. The final title of the album Hysteria was conceived by Allen referring to his car crash, the amputation of his arm, and the ensuing worldwide media coverage surrounding it. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteri...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
