Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie
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Blu-ray + CDMercury Studios | 2023 | 89 min | Not rated | Nov 21, 2025
Movie rating
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| Users |  | 0.0 |
| Reviewer |  | 4.0 |
| Overall | | 4.0 |
Overview
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield (2023)
On May 22, 2023, 47 years after their birth, Def Leppard returned to their home city to perform their second ever stadium concert in Sheffield at Bramall Lane. Kicking off their European tour, this monumental homecoming show was performed to a sold-out roaring crowd of almost 40,000 fans. It includes classics Photograph and Pour Some Sugar on Me as well as UK live debuts Take What You Want and This Guitar, the latter dedicated to the band's late great guitarist Steve Clark. Days earlier, Def Leppard revisited their club days and playing an intimate show in front of just under 900 die-hard fans at The Leadmill in their hometown of Sheffield. Those lucky enough to score a ticket to one of the group's most unique shows in years were treated to a set filled with hits and rarities spanning their entire catalog from 'On Through The Night' to the band's most recent album 'Diamond Star Halos'.
Starring: Joe Elliott (I), Rick Allen (VII), Rick Savage (II), Vivian Campbell, Phil Collen| Music | 100% |
Specifications
Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080i
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: LPCM 2.0
Subtitles
None
Discs
Blu-ray Disc
Three-disc set (1 BD, 2 CDs)
Playback
Region A (B, C untested)
Review
Rating summary
| Movie | | 4.0 |
| Video |  | 4.5 |
| Audio |  | 5.0 |
| Extras |  | 1.0 |
| Overall | | 4.0 |
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie Review
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman November 22, 2025Luckily Def Leppard wisely chose not to listen to "colonist" Thomas Wolfe, the American author who famously opined "you can't go home again". This rollicking concert in fact took place in the band's home city, offering their second ever stadium concert in Sheffield at Bramall Lane. This 2023 concert was the kickoff for their European tour, and according to this release's liner notes this particular performance took place in front of a staggering 40,000 audience members (actually over 40,000, but who's counting?). Mercury Studios is offering two releases of the concert, this 1080 version and Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield 4K, which is in SDR but which contains a bonus concert called One Night Only: Live at the Leadmill. This release on the other hand offers two CDs of the concert which are not included with the 4K release.
The band's set list includes:
- 1. Take What You Want
- 2. Let’s Get Rocked
- 3. Animal
- 4. Foolin’
- 5. Armageddon It
- 6. Kick
- 7. Love Bites
- 8. Promises
- 9. This Guitar
- 10. When Love And Hate Collide
- 11. Rocket
- 12. Bringin’ On The Heartbreak
- 13. Switch 625
- 14. Hysteria
- 15. Pour Some Sugar On Me
- 16. Rock Of Ages
- 17. Photograph
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Mercury Studios with an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.78:1. The huge outdoor stadium venue sees a concert long enough that natural lighting changes from day to night, and there's similar variety in the visual accoutrements accompanying the concert. Huge panels upstage offer a variety of pictures, graphics and other blandishments, and a really wide variety of stage lighting comes into play. That gives the entire concert a lot of visual interest and commendably detail levels are great looking for the most part. There are a few curious midrange shots that look just slightly blurry, which may suggest some on the fly focus pulling issues. Despite the interlaced presentation, I frankly noticed no egregious combing artifacts and there's a really nice fluidity to the visuals.
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield features Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 options, and each is quite effective on their own merits. Both of the surround tracks offer really spacious accountings of not just the music but the actual "stadium ambience", something that is probably more noticeable with the Atmos' presentation of wafting roars of approval from the audience. Def Leppard is another band that is "getting up there" in terms of age, but they are incredibly energetic throughout this performance and both vocals and instrumentals are crisp and effective. The stereo track probably helps to focus the overall band sound, especially with regard to vocals, and may make for an appealing alternate listen for many.
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras
As mentioned above, the 4K release has a bonus video concert which is not offered on this 1080 disc. This release comes with 2 CDs offering the main concert, with the same track list reprinted above. The fourfold DigiPack also has an 8 page (including covers) leaflet with photos and production credits. Kind of interestingly, the leaflet is not included with the 4K UHD release.
Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes Live From Sheffield Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation
There's a surprising amount of emotion running through this concert, but there's also a really fun, contagious sense of energy. The band sounds great and the audience is obviously rapturously in love with them. Technical merits are generally solid, and whether or not fans opt for this release or Mercury Studios' 4K release may well come down to whether they want the two CDs of the main concert included here, or the bonus concert offered on the 4K UHD disc. Recommended.
