New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Week 3 - Def Leppard

Week 3 of our series on The New Wave of British Heavy Metal This week we have a classic from Def Leppard from 1979 from Wikipedia: "Wasted" is a 1979 single by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their debut album On Through the Night. This was the band's first proper single, and the recording featured on the single is a different version from the On Through the Night LP. The B-Side on the single is "Hello America", which is also a different recording from the LP. These alternate, single-only versions of "Wasted" and "Hello America" have never been released on CD, except for on bootlegs. The record was produced by Nick Tauber, whom the band selected because of his previous clients, particularly Thin Lizzy. Two other songs, Rock Brigade and Glad I'm Alive, were recorded during the session but were shelved when the band's management were displeased with the production, thus resulting in Wasted and Hello America being released as a single. Tauber's versions of Rock Brigade and Glad I'm Alive remain unreleased.