Manager Peter Mensch met graphic designer Andie Airfix to discuss creating the artwork. They concluded they had enough of cliché hard rock covers with tattoos, pictures of half-naked women riding motorbikes and fire-breathing monsters. Preter Mensch: 'We need something different – more modern. We need to go back to basics. We need to redefine the image of heavy rock!'

The title Pyromania was some kind of an inside joke. During the sessions, the band had a lot of problems with their Marshall amplifiers to sound good. They suggested taking them to the garden and burn them all. As a bunch of Pyromaniacs!

Airfix brought in Bernard Gudynas, an illustrator specializing in futuristic designs. They sketched out ideas, including a magnified section of an exploding building. The illustration is also contained within a black border which smoke could pour onto; creating a further dimension to the design. The magnified section implicates a viewer – you. And the details of the explosion suggest you used a weapon that is much bigger than a riffle. A rocket launcher, perhaps?

(After the 9/11 attacks, the band admitted that the first thing they thought of when they saw the World Trade Center on fire was Pyromania's cover)

The title Pyromania was some kind of an inside joke. During the sessions, the band had a lot of problems with their Marshall amplifiers to sound good. They suggested taking them to the garden and burn them all. As a bunch of Pyromaniacs!

This idea has been worked out on the back cover. The left upper corner has some kind of 'danger-triangle' with Def Leppard lettering: maybe suggesting that the album is highly explosive! To complete the Pyromania the album info (song titles, etc) is placed on matches. One of them is burning; to ignite of the whole album!?

Photographs of the band members are a little out of theme.

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the early 80s. Their greatest commercial success came between the 80s and the early 90s.

As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and have two albums with RIAA diamond certification: Pyromania and Hysteria, making them one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling more than 10 million copies in the US.

Def Leppard were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

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