Even though the breakout album 'Pyromania' by Def Leppard was already halfway recorded, a fateful shake-up was required. Read ...
When they returned four years later (part of the delay was due to their drummer losing his arm in a car accident; he had to relearn how to play a computerized set), Def Leppard and producer Robert ...
Phil Collen has described working with Mutt Lange as “like going to school for your favourite subject,” crediting the super-producer as not only being instrumental in helping Def Leppard find ...
Taking five between packing out stadiums, Collen shares his philosophy on digital amps, what Mutt Lange taught him, and how ...
Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Def Leppard has outlived so many of the hard rock and heavy metal bands from the early days of those genres. The group is still ...
In the second week of January, Rick was visited by ‘Mutt’ Lange, the producer whom Def Leppard called “our sixth member”. Lange had produced and co-written the band’s multi-million selling 1983 album ...
In the late 1970s Britain, Joe Elliot joins a small time rock band that becomes Def Leppard. Soon taking control of the band with his perfectionism, Elliot and his mates strive to reach the top ...
For musical inspiration, Joe Elliott doesn't have to look far. The longtime frontman for the rock band Def Leppard pointed to fellow Brits like the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney as proof that ...
Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil and Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. CREDIT: Paras Griffin/Gabe Ginsberg/Catherine Powell/Getty Images The festival – organised by C3 Presents ...
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott is featured on a rocking Christmas song with Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders frontman Ricky Warwick and another famous guest, The Cult’s Billy Duffy. The song is titled ...