The Miracle Show -Def Leppard live in Bulgaria

'Now, make some noise for yourselves, because you're heroes!'-said Joe Elliott to the people in 'Academic stadium' in Sofia who survived the long delay of the show, the pouring rain and severe wind ,just to see their idols for the first time ever in Bulgaria.

The show in Sofia was exceptional in every way you could possibly imagine. It was like Murphy was watching all over the place the whole time.

The show was set to start at 8pm with the rock monsters Whitesnake, but a 3 hour delay of the technique on the Macedonian customs gave the start to the long waiting. We listened to the covers of AC/DC, Sabbath, etc, the opening band made, and the millions of songs played from the stage stereo. Then they were, the most precious words we anticipated to hear 'The equipment has just arrived!' .. Hallelujah! The stage had to be set, but it seemed like the staff didn't bother hurrying at all. At 11pm Whitesnake got on stage and brought our numb limbs back to life. But it wasn't over.Half an hour after their appearance the sky decided that the Bulgarian public deserves more.And it started to rain. Slow at first, and then it was awful. And the wind helped it to spread on the stage, too.The band seemed very frustrated of that fact and it looked like it killed their enthusiasm.

After the end of the Snakes' part, there was Leppards' turn. It was raining and the wind was blowing. It became very cold. Everybody was shivering, and again cursing the stage-staff who showed us one more time their unique slowness in setting it up.

But never mind that, the waiting was worth it .There they were - Def Leppard!
Joe Elliot, with his typical and great sense of humor got on stage with an umbrella and smashed it with the words 'Ah, who needs that?'

'Guitar...Drums...' and that was it! We were someplace else. The rain and cold was forgotten and there was only the warm, beautiful feeling that we were so close to that great band, who really managed to show their class with great sound and performance, even though the delay and the rain, and the lack of sound check and rehearsal!

'Rocket' totally blew us up, and made everybody go into ecstasies; it was followed by 'Animal'. The Lepps made two songs from their new album 'Songs from the Sparkle Lounge' - 'Nine Lives' and 'C'mon C'mon'. 'Make Love like a Man' was next. Then the stage went dark, violet lights ablazed the air above Rick Allen and everybody recognized the beginning

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