Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Elliott ya ba da sunan "Deaf Leopard" wanda asalinsa sunan band ne wanda ya yi tunani yayin rubuta sake dubawa ga ƙungiyoyin dutsen da aka yi a cikin darasin Ingilishi. A shawarar Kenning, an ɗan gyara yadda ake rubuta sunan don kada ya yi kama da rukunin mawaƙa. A cikin Janairu 1978, Steve Clark ya shiga ƙungiyar. A cewar Elliott, ya yi nasarar gwadawa ga ƙungiyar ta hanyar kunna Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" gaba ɗaya. A watan Nuwamba, kafin a yi rikodin abin da zai zama sakin waƙoƙi uku da aka sani da The Def Leppard E.P., Kenning ba zato ba tsammani ya bar ƙungiyar; daga baya zai kafa ƙungiyar Cairo. An maye gurbinsa don waɗannan zaman ta Frank Noon. A ƙarshen watan, Rick Allen, wanda ke da shekaru 15 kawai a lokacin, ya shiga ƙungiyar a matsayin drummer na cikakken lokaci. Tallace-tallace na EP ya tashi bayan waƙar "Getcha Rocks Off" an ba shi babban iska mai yawa ta sanannen BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, wanda aka ɗauka a wancan lokacin a matsayin zakara na punk rock da kiɗan sabon kalaman. A cikin 1979, ƙungiyar ta haɓaka masu aminci a tsakanin masanan dutsen Burtaniya da masu son ƙarfe masu nauyi kuma ana ɗaukarsu a cikin shugabannin sabon kalaman motsi na ƙarfe mai nauyi na Burtaniya. Girman shahararsu ya haifar da yarjejeniyar rikodin tare da babban lakabin Phonogram / Vertigo (Mercury Records a Amurka). Gudanarwar asali na Def Leppard, MSB, ƙungiyar 'yan gida da ta ƙunshi Pete Martin da Frank Stuart-Brown, an kore su bayan Martin da Joe Elliott sun shiga cikin fistfight a kan wani abin da ya faru a hanya. Kungiyar ta kusanci Peter Mensch na gudanarwar Leber-Krebs, wanda ya yi musu rajista a yawon shakatawa na Burtaniya don tallafawa AC / DC. Mensch, wanda ya yarda cewa yana da ido a kan ƙungiyar, ya zama manajan su.  Tambaya: Wanene ya kasance memba na Def Leppard?
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