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Def Leppard kicked off their Las Vegas residency on Friday at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Leppard will perform 11 shows at the club between March 22 and April 13.

Guitarist Phil Collen says the band will be recording the Vegas concerts for a live album release.

“Absolutely, we are going to do 'Hysteria Live',” Collen told Classic Rock Revisited recently. “We are going to do ‘Hysteria’ from start to finish,” explains the guitarist. “We are actually doing two sets; we are going to open up for ourselves. We are going to do 45 minutes, take a break and then do ‘Hysteria’. We are learning hundreds of songs and we are going to be doing songs that we’ve not played in years, or that we’ve never done. It is going to be really great.”

“The first set will never be the same; we will change it every night,” adds Collen. “They will all be Def Leppard songs. We may play songs that we’ve covered of other people. It is going to be very fun for us. We are not sure what we are going to play. We are digging stuff up from the first album and the second album and we are just going to really do a lot of stuff that the fans will love.”

Def Leppard
VIVA! Hysteria & More
The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Mar 22, 2013

First set:

01. Good Morning Freedom
02. Wasted
03. Mirror, Mirror (Look Into My Eyes)
04. Foolin'
05. Promises
06. When Love And Hate Collide
07. Let It Go
08. Slang
09. Bringin' On The Heartbreak
10. Switch 625

Second set – "Hysteria" performed live:

11. Women
12. Rocket
13. Animal
14. Love Bites
15. Pour Some Sugar On Me
16. Armageddon It
17. Gods Of War
18. Don't Shoot Shotgun
19. Run Riot
20. Hysteria
21. Excitable
22. Love And Affection

Encore:

23. Rock Of Ages
24. Photograph