While Def Leppard’s album ‘Pyromania’ was one of the fastest albums in the world in 1984, the band’s drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash, and after a two years’ band hiatus for his recovery, resumed to drumming with the band with one arm.

The phrase “heavy metal thunder” in Steppenwolf’s 1968 hit “Born to Be Wild” is one of the earliest uses of the term “heavy metal” in a musical context — predating the musical genre itself by about two years.

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