Diamond Star Halos

{{Music ratings

| title = Professional ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1score ={{rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite news |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |title=Def Leppard Diamond Star Halos |work=AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/diamond-star-halos-mw0003687046 |access-date=June 3, 2022}}

| rev2 =The Arts Desk

| rev2score ={{rating|3|5}}{{Cite news |last=Muggs |first=Joe |date=26 May 2022 |title=Album: Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos |work=The Arts Desk |url=https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/album-def-leppard-diamond-star-halos |access-date=May 27, 2022}}

| rev3 =Blabbermouth.net

| rev3score =7/10{{Cite news |last=Lawson |first=Dom |title=Def Leppard - Diamond Star Halos |work=Blabbermouth.net |url=https://blabbermouth.net/reviews/diamond-star-halos |access-date=May 27, 2022}}

| rev4 =Louder Sound

| rev4score ={{rating|4|5}}{{Cite news |last=Jeffries |first=Neil |date=May 26, 2022 |title=Def Leppard have just released their best album in 30 years |work=Louder Sound |url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/def-leppard-have-just-released-their-best-album-in-30-years |access-date=May 27, 2022}}

| rev5 =The Daily Telegraph

| rev5score ={{rating|4|5}}{{Cite news |last=Hall |first=James |date=May 27, 2022 |title=Def Leppard, Diamond Star Halos |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/liam-gallagher-album-review-cmon-know-def-leppard-sean-paul/ |access-date=May 27, 2022}}

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Ultimate Classic Rock{{'}}s Michael Gallucci called the album "most obvious callback to glam's glory days as well as their own past triumphs", claiming that the band have learned to not "mess with what works" unlike past projects Slang and X. Having noted influences of glam rock stars David Bowie, Mott the Hoople and T. Rex, Gallucci also wrote that while, "like most tribute albums, the take-and-give results on Diamond Star Halos don't always match what was heard the first time around", "the band hasn't sounded this invigorated on record since the early '90s."{{Cite news |last=Gallucci |first=Michael |date=May 25, 2022 |title=Def Leppard, Diamond Star Halos: Album Review |work=Ultimate Classic Rock |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/def-leppard-diamond-star-halos-album-review/ |access-date=May 29, 2022}} The Arts Desk{{'}}s Joe Muggs wrote that "this album starts and ends so brilliantly", starting with "a salvo of three tracks that remind you exactly why Def Leppard became one of the biggest bands in the world in the mid Eighties" and ending with "heavily Queen-indebted high drama closer 'From Here to Eternity'", a "grand way to close a record", contrasting with a middle section that is "way too generic, slightly countrified and very American soft rock" and "can't really live up" to "these great bookends".

Blabbermouth.net{{'}}s Dom Lawson explains the band's appeal as being because they "have never stopped behaving like the wide-eyed, priapic teenagers they were when they penned 'Hello America' all those years ago" rather than "resting on their laurels, touring the world on an endless nostalgia trip and never again making a new album", and that while the band are "relaxed" and the album "low on shiny bells and high-tech whistles", "it compensates by being (mainly) full of simple, heartfelt and punchy songs" and "is a very good time had by all." Louder Sound{{'}}s Neil Jeffries called "SOS Emergency", "All We Need", "Open Your Eyes", "Gimme a Kiss", and "Unbreakable" "especially strong" and "stadium pleasers in the grand Leppard tradition"; and the album "best appreciated as a double album: three sides, each begun by three rockers and ending with a change of pace, then a shorter fourth side that abandons the pattern and goes out on the high of [Rick] Savage's 'From Here to Eternity', an epic track with a swinging, Pink Floyd-like tempo." The Telegraph{{'}}s James Hall also emphasised the album's "[not messing] with the formula" in comparison to Slang, save for the "fascinating curveballs" brought in the form of the Alison Krauss-featuring "This Guitar" and "Lifeless", the former of which Hall called the better of the two and "a subtle (by Def Leppard standards) ballad that could well turn out to be a smash in the Nashville country charts." AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "Leppard crank up the hooks, melodies, and amplifiers, adding little bits of distinctive flair along the way", noting that "its individual moments may not be excessive" but "the cumulative effect is almost overwhelming, especially as Def Leppard gives it their all in each cut."

Ultimate Classic Rock placed Diamond Star Halos at 13th of their top 30 best rock albums of 2022.{{Cite news |last=Irwin |first=Corey |date=November 23, 2022 |title=Top 30 Rock Albums of 2022 |work=Ultimate Classic Rock |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-rock-albums-2022/ |access-date=December 11, 2022}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Standard edition

| title1 = Take What You Want

| writer1 = {{hlist|Joe Elliott|Rick Savage}}

| length1 = 4:14

| title2 = Kick

| writer2 = {{hlist|Dave Bassett|Phil Collen}}

| length2 = 3:42

| title3 = Fire It Up

| writer3 = {{hlist|Collen|Sam Hollander}}

| length3 = 3:19

| title4 = This Guitar

| note4 = featuring Alison Krauss

| writer4 = {{hlist|C. J. Vanston|Collen}}

| length4 = 3:50

| title5 = SOS Emergency

| writer5 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length5 = 3:25

| title6 = Liquid Dust

| writer6 = Collen

| length6 = 4:01

| title7 = U Rok Mi

| writer7 = Collen

| length7 = 3:33

| title8 = Goodbye for Good This Time

| writer8 = Elliott

| length8 = 4:27

| title9 = All We Need

| writer9 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length9 = 4:46

| title10 = Open Your Eyes

| writer10 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length10 = 4:19

| title11 = Gimme a Kiss

| note11 = Called "Gimme a Kiss That Rocks" on the CD version

| writer11 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length11 = 3:12

| title12 = Angels (Can't Help You Now)

| writer12 = Elliott

| length12 = 4:57

| title13 = Lifeless

| note13 = featuring Alison Krauss

| writer13 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length13 = 4:19

| title14 = Unbreakable

| writer14 = Elliott

| length14 = 3:46

| title15 = From Here to Eternity

| writer15 = Savage

| length15 = 5:37

| total_length = 61:27

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{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition

| title16 = Goodbye for Good This Time

| note16 = Avant-Garde Mix

| writer16 = Elliott

| length16 = 4.34

| title17 = Lifeless

| note17 = Joe Only Version

| writer17 = {{hlist|Elliott|Collen}}

| length17 = 4.21

| total_length = 70:22

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese standard edition

| title16 = Angels (Can't Help You Now)

| note16 = Stripped Version

| writer16 = Elliott

| length16 = 4.57

| title17 = This Guitar

| note17 = Joe Only Version

| writer17 = {{hlist|Vanston|Collen}}

| length17 = 3.50

| total_length = 70:14

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• Joe Elliott – lead vocals, guitar (8, 12, 14), additional engineering
• Phil Collen – guitar (1–7, 9–15), backing vocals (1), additional engineering
• Rick Savage – bass guitar, guitar (1–3, 15), backing vocals (1), additional engineering
• Vivian Campbell – guitar, backing vocals (1), additional engineering
• Rick Allen – drums

• Debbi Blackwell-Cook – backing vocals (2, 3, 11, 12)
• Dave Bassett – backing vocals (2, 3)
• Alison Krauss – lead vocals (4, 13)
• Mike Garson – piano (8, 12)

• Ronan McHugh – producer, drum programmer, editor, engineer, mixing
• Ross Hogarth – recording engineer (4, 8, 12)
• Joe LaPorta – mastering engineer
• Eric Gorfain – string arrangements (4, 8, 12)

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