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Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (2001) (TV) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors in geography: The lines down the center of British roads are not yellow but white.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the "Photograph" writing scene, the Mutt Lange character is playing a Roland JX-8p. This synthesizer wasn't developed until 1984, a year after Def Leppard originally issued the Pyromania record.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Joe Elliott is driving and listening to "Pour Some Sugar on Me" he reaches down to rewind the tape. Immediately before he reaches down he passes a white car parked on the side of the road. When the shot cuts back to Joe from the tape deck, he passes that same white car again.
  
  

• Continuity: When the guys are at Joe's house in the beginning he goes to get his "Deaf Leopard" poster and stuff that he drew. When he returns you see Pete Willis from behind reach out to take the poster in his hands. When the shot cuts to a front shot of Pete he is empty handed and takes the poster again.
  
  
• Factual errors: When they are flying over London right after the American tour, we see a plane landing. The only problem is that it's a Boeing 727. It is unlikely any airliner would use this type of plane for a transatlantic flight. Reason number one is that it's a narrow bodied aircraft, reason number two, transatlantic flights accommodate large numbers of people, and therefore almost always use giant jetliners.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When they perform their songs, you can tell they're lipsynching, and the movements of their mouths are also out of sync with the music.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious fake arm laying on the ground after Rick Allen's car crash.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the opening scene the black corvette passes a road sign. The road sign states that the car is on the A57, 2 miles from the M25, 11miles from Sheffield and 46 miles from Manchester. The closest the M25 comes to Sheffield is about 170 miles.
  
  
• Anachronisms: It is shown that Zildjian Avedis and Z-Custom cymbals were used in the movie. Z-Customs were not around before 1986. The Avedis cymbals in the movie were shown to have Avedis written above the Zildjian logo. The new logo wasn't introduced until the 1990's.
  
  
• Factual errors: Shortly after Rick Allen's accident, the band can be seen in the studio laying down audio and practicing guitar riffs for "Pour Some Sugar on Me." Joe Elliot, Phil Collen, and other members of the band have stated quite publicly in numerous interviews that "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was the last track to be recorded, based off an improvised guitar riff, after the album was already considered finished. It was a last-minute add on that took two weeks to record, light years in Def Leppard time. Therefore, "Sugar" would not have been thought of or recorded until late '86, early '87, not 1985.
  
  
• Anachronisms: It is shown that Zildjian Avedis and Z-Custom cymbals were used in the movie. Z-Customs were not around before 1986. The Avedis cymbals in the movie were shown to have Avedis written above the Zildjian logo. The new logo wasn't introduced until the 1990s.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In reality, Rick Allen didn't leave the hospital to play with his re-attached left arm. The doctors removed it after only 24 hours, since other parts of his body were being infected. This scene was a dream.
  
  

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