# @defleppard on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CAaYiyVB8Tb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15586922-defleppard-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-05-20T14:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Def Leppard (@defleppard) — https://gondola.cc/defleppard

## Caption

On this day in #DefLeppardHistory, 40 years ago today (20 May 1980) Def Leppard made their U.S. concert debut with a show in Santa Monica, California which they opened with the song “Hello America”. .
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Recalling the gig, Sav said: “We could not believe the reaction. Sure we'd come from England where we were very popular[...]But this was America, where we thought nobody would know anything about us, And these people not only knew the songs, they were going mad for them."

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