The Tragic Death Of Def Leppard's Steve Clark

According to Collen, this was around the time that Steve Clark met Janie Dean, the woman he'd spend the rest of his life with, even proposing after just a few months. Dean was a recovering heroin addict, and the couple's plans to keep one another clean led, inevitably, to relapse.

Adding to the situation was a pain pill prescription given to Clark after he'd injured a rib. On January 8th, 1991, the musician was found dead on his sofa by Janie with a lethal combination of alcohol, codeine, and valium in his system. He was 30 years old.

After Clark's passing, the members of Def Leppard threw themselves into recording their next album, Adrenalize. While they finished the record as a four piece group, Clark would eventually be replaced in the lineup by Vivian Campbell of Dio. Collen states that Janie Dean died a few years later, also as a result of substance abuse.