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''Retro Active'' is an album by English hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1993. The album features touched-up versions of B-sides and previously unreleased recordings from the band's recording sessions between 1984 and 1993. The album charted at number 9 on The Billboard 200 and No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart. ==Overview== After releasing only five albums over the course of a twelve-year period, Def Leppard used ''Retro Active'' to break that habit, provide a treat for diehard fans, and close the door on the "Steve Clark" era of the band. It reached platinum sales in many countries. According to singer Joe Elliott, the concept behind the album was envisioned after "Two Steps Behind", originally demoed solely by Elliott as an electric version in 1989, was recorded by the band as an acoustic ballad at the suggestion of guitarist Phil Collen. When the producers of the film ''Last Action Hero'' contacted the band in 1993 to provide a new song for the soundtrack, the band were unable to record new material due to touring schedules and sent over the multitrack tape of the acoustic version of "Two Steps Behind", which was given strings by conductor Michael Kamen in April 1993 and included onto the film soundtrack. It would become the band's last Top 20 single in the US, reaching No. 12, and would inspire the band to put the album together and re-record the electric version of the song. Although many tracks were found on single releases, some parts were re-recorded on the road during the ''Adrenalize'' tour. The original B-side version of "She's Too Tough" and the electric version of "Miss You in a Heartbeat" were originally released as bonus tracks for the Japanese pressing of Adrenalize. Originally written in 1985, it first appeared on the Helix album ''Wild in the Streets'' in 1987.〔Wild in the Streets (Helix album)〕 Two unfinished songs from the ''Hysteria'' recording sessions, "Desert Song" and "Fractured Love", were completed exclusively for the album. The album also had covers, Sweet's "Action" (which charted higher than the original in the UK) and Mick Ronson's "Only After Dark". Although guitarist Collen had written and demoed "Miss You in a Heartbeat" in 1991, it was released first on the self-titled 1991 debut by The Law, a band featuring Paul Rodgers and The Who drummer Kenney Jones. After the band had recorded new vocal, bass and drum parts to the electric version of the song in April 1992, Collen overheard Elliott experimenting with the song with a piano. Elliott then recorded a piano and vocal version to the song, and then Collen, bassist Rick Savage and drummer Rick Allen added acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar and drum parts to it in June 1993, creating the acoustic version that would be released as a single. The version of "Ride into the Sun" is not the version that appeared on ''The Def Leppard E.P.'', but rather the 1987 re-recording. It differs slightly from the version of the recording used as a B-side in the ''Hysteria'' era, though. The one used as a B-side had a Rick Allen drum solo intro, whereas this one has a piano intro provided by Ian Hunter. ''Retro Active'' features a hidden (final) track: the piano/vocal version of "Miss You in a Heartbeat", which also features an alternate acoustic guitar solo by Collen. This is the first Def Leppard album without previous guitarist Steve Clark who died in 1991, to feature songs recorded with newly added guitarist Vivian Campbell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Retro Active」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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