Def Leppard were fine purveyors of 80s hair soft rock. While my heart belongs to Bon Jovi, Leppard rank highly. But then, I got a lot of time for Whitesnake, Warrant, Poison, all that shit.
Honestly, there are several genres I think I like, but I actually know fuck all about music classification. Let's just say I'm a big fan of, in no particular order, on top of the above, in no particular order :
Jimi Hendrix, Kansas, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Rainbow, Boston, Journey, Chicago, The Who, Cheap Trick, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, Van Halen, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, Pantera, Rage Against The Machine, Joy Division/New Order, James, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, House Of Love, Primal Scream, Happy Mondays, Oasis, Pixies, older Green Day, Transvision Vamp, Roxette, Boy Meets Girl, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Huey Lewis, Go West, The Levellers, The Charlatans, Embrace, Athlete, Blink 182, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, JJ72, Killers, The Bravery, Kasabian, Idlewild, Semisonic, Delays, The Libertines, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, The Subways, AFI, The Bouncing Souls, The Magic Numbers, Hard-Fi, MGMT, The Arcade Fire, Sunshine Underground, The Drums, Glasvegas, The White Lies, The View, The Naked And Famous, The Vaccines, The Gaslight Anthem, Muse, Placebo and a hell of a lot of others.
But first, last, and above all others : Queen.