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My 22nd birthday, live at the Philadelphia Spectrum with Dio. Tobruk was recording and invited us over for a very wild party.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
My 33rd springs to mind. We were in Omaha, NE, playing in the round with the whole place singing 'Happy Birthday' - I felt like I was standing on a huge birthday cake. Very weird.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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When anything happens to us we always pull together, not only personally but musically. You get on with working and it seems to take your mind off whatever bad things seem to happen.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
There was never a question of folding up or Rick not being able to do it - it never came up. Through Rick's attitude, we knew that he would pull through.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
F*ck, I can't remember. Jesus, we are getting boring! I suppose the last one I recall was at Sav's (Leppard bassist, Rick Savage). He's got a place in Dublin. It was very cool, but I left at 2am when a lot of people were just arriving. When you don't drink, you tend to leave before people start slobbering all over you.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
In our apartment in New York we'd see something out of the corner of our eye but we didn't know what it was, and when we moved we never saw it again.
Phil Collen Def Leppard
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Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
Before we became engaged, my wife was having surgery to have her spleen removed. I drove to the hospital and got into her bed so she would get up next to me before the surgery.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
I never used to be into flowers and stuff like that but I do it for my wife all the time now, I'm really soppy with her.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
Some weird blue sh*t that someone gave me during our 1992 Australian tour. I didn't eat it.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
No matter how well a band performs, if its songs are a pile of junk, the group might as well not put the effort into it.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
And really, it's my home life that my own personal foundation is based on and not necessarily the life within the band.
Rick Savage Def Leppard
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It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
We were noticed not because we dressed and acted so strangely, but because we didn't. All the other bands at that time were concerned with dressing as outrageously as possible and dying their hair ridiculous colors. We tended to look and act rather conservatively. People remember us, as well as our music.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
The Internet has definitely opened doors and leveled the playing field for musicians.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
But it just so happens that when you're in the public eye, everything gets reported.
Rick Savage Def Leppard
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I just really have a problem with people stereotyping in any shape or form. So yeah, I never really wanted to do that. You know I'm married to a black woman and people get surprised when you say that. They expect you to have some big, blonde, busty chick.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
I feel so incredibly vulnerable and exposed when I have to talk into a microphone and bare my soul so to speak.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
And more importantly, I wouldnt be the person I am today, I wouldnt be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasnt for the accident.
Rick Allen Def Leppard