Yeah! (Def Leppard album)

The accompanying booklet contains photographs of the band members recreating classic images from 1970s album art.

• Rick Savage – Freddie Mercury from the album Queen II
• Vivian Campbell – Marc Bolan from T. Rex's Electric Warrior
• Joe Elliott – David Bowie from the rear cover of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• Rick Allen – Lou Reed, Transformer
• Phil Collen – The Stooges, Raw Power

There are also four group photographs in the CD booklet – on the cover, the centre, inside back cover and the back cover.

• The inside back cover (back of the CD holder) has a picture with the original triangle Def Leppard logo (from the On Through the Night album), with a shaft of light passing through it and creating a rainbow, a la the cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.

Rating the album 4.5 out of 5, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised Yeah! as the band's best effort since Hysteria, noting how the band "no longer sound as slick and calculated as they did on their albums after Hysteria; they sound alive and vigorous, making a convincing case that they're now their own best producers." Erlewine concluded that "few bands could achieve an artistic comeback via a covers album, but as this glorious record proves, there are few bands like Def Leppard."{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yeah%21-mw0000649176 | title=Def Leppard Yeah! Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic | website=AllMusic }}

In a 3 out of 5 review, Andy Greene of Rolling Stone wrote that Yeah! was the band's "most convincing album in fourteen years", citing "Rock On" and "Stay With Me" as highlights. He concluded by saying that "none of the arrangements veer far from the originals, but they don't need to - it's good enough to just hear the band having fun and to see where all the Hysteria came from."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/yeah-20060612/|title=Def Leppard Yeah! Album Review|author=Andy Greene|date=12 June 2006|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=7 January 2016}}

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• All of bonus song recordings were later included in Yeah! II, a bonus album of cover songs released as part of The Collection: Volume Three box set released in 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.defleppard.com/def-leppard-to-release-volume-three-limited-edition-box-set-on-june-11-2021/|title=DEF LEPPARD TO RELEASE 'VOLUME THREE' - LIMITED EDITION BOX SET ON JUNE 11, 2021|website=Def Leppard|date=23 April 2021 |accessdate=5 February 2025}}

• Joe Elliott – lead vocals, piano, all instruments "Space Oddity", art direction on inner sleeve
• Phil Collen – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Stay with Me" and "Search and Destroy", all instruments on "Search and Destroy"
• Vivian Campbell – guitar, backing vocals
• Rick Savage – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals and all instruments on "Dear Friends"
• Rick Allen – drums, percussion

• Emm Gryner—backing vocals, piano on "The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll"
• Ian Hunter—spoken intro on "The Golden Age of Rock 'N' Roll"
• Justin Hawkins – backing vocals on "Hell Raiser"
• Marc Danzeisen – drums and harmony/backing vocals on "American Girl"
• t42design – artwork
• Vartan – art direction on cover
• Clay Patrick McBride – photography on cover art, back cover, trays
• Mick Rock – photography on inner sleeve

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