The first single, 'Nine Lives', from DEF LEPPARD's 14th studio album, Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, is currently charting at #1 on Classic Rock Radio and #14 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Also announced, 'Nine Lives' will be exclusively featured as a downloadable song on the massively popular Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock videogame. The song will hit the Xbox Live Marketplace and Sony Playstation Store on April 24th.

In other news, the band will debut the single on ABC's Dancing With The Stars, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen Degeneres Show on the week of its release.

Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, is set for release on April 29th in North America, the 30th in Japan and May 5th in the UK. The limited edition Japanese version will feature a bonus track, and a bonus DVD with behind-the-scenes interviews and music videos. The CD will be a limited edition featuring the new deluxe SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) format which is completely compatible with standard CD players.

The tracklisting for the album is as follows: 'Nine Lives', 'C'mon C'mon', 'Go', 'Love', 'Cruise Control', 'Bad Actress', 'Hallucinate', 'Tomorrow', 'Come Undone', 'Only The Good Die Young' and 'Gotta Let It Go'.

Dates for the third leg of Def Leppard's 2008 World Tour have been announced. This leg, taking the band back to North America and partially making up for some of the postponed dates of this past week, consists of the following 16 dates:

July

30 - Hidalgo, TX - Dodge Arena

August

1 - Nashville, TN - Sommet Center
2 - Birmingham, AL - Verizon Wireless Center
3 - Biloxi, MS - Mississippi Coast Coliseum
6 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum *
7 - London, ON - John Labatt Centre
9 - Quebec City, QC - Colisee Pepsi *
10 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place *
13 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre *
15 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena *
16 - Des Moines, IA - Iowa State Fair
17 - Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
20 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Memorial Coliseum
21 - Youngstown, OH - Chevrolet Centre
23 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena *
24 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair

For those who have tickets for the postponed dates that were supposed to take place this past week in Canada, Grand Rapids and Detroit (marked with * above), refer to your point of purchase (Ticketmaster, eTix, Admission, Capital Tickets, etc.) for a refund or information about the validity of your tickets for the new dates.