First Strikes 1978–1979

Tracklist

• 1
  Ride Into the Sun
  2:54
  1.0 ★
• 2
  Getcha Rocks Off
  3:40
  1.0 ★
• 3
  The Overture
  7:45
  1.0 ★
• 4
  Heat Street
  2:53
• 5
  Answer to the Master
  3:24
• 6
  See the Lights
  3:38
• 7
  When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
  3:48
• 8
  Wasted
  3:30
• 9
  Sorrow Is a Woman
  3:50
• 10
  Glad I’m Alive
  4:10
• 11
  Glad I’m Alive (live)
  4:53
• 12
  Hello America (live)
  3:16
• 13
  When the Walls Is Tumbling Down (live)
  4:33
• 14
  The Overture (live)
  7:45
• 15
  Getcha Rocks Off (live)
  3:55
• 16
  Wasted (live)
  3:46
• 17
  Wasted (single version, 1979)
  3:04
  2.0 ★
• 18
  Hello America (single version, 1979)
  3:08
  2.0 ★
• 19
  Good Morning Freedom (B‐side, March 1980)
  2:58
  3.0 ★

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Release credits

• Alex Gietz
  engineer [4-10], remixer [4-10]
• Def Leppard
  producer [1-3, 17-18]
• Dick Plant
  engineer [18-19]
• Frank Noon
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• Frank Stuart-Brown
  producer [4-10]
• Joe Elliott
  lead vocals [1-10, 17-19]
• Keith Herd
  engineer [1-3]
• Louis Austin
  engineer [18-19]
• Nick Cartwright
  mix [1-3]
• Nick Tauber
  producer [17-18]
• Pete Willis
  background vocals [1-3], electric guitar [1-10, 17-18, 18-19]
• Peter Martin
  producer [4-10]
• Rick Allen
  drums (drum set) [4-10, 17-19]
• Rick Savage
  background vocals [1-3], bass guitar [1-10, 17-19]
• Roy Neave
  engineer [1-10]
• Steve Clark
  background vocals [1-3], electric guitar [1-10, 17-18, 18-19]
• Tom Allom
  producer [18-19]
• Tory Eskridge
  background vocals [6]
• Show all credits (18)

Issues

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  First Strikes 1978–1979

  CD
  2013