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Yeah, I'm the 'new guy'.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
I've never been that good with pickup lines. I'd always let them come to me. The great thing about being in a band is if you wanted to meet a girl, most likely they'd find you. You don't have to work too hard. I was always pretty polite. I'd always ask girls' permission to kiss them.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
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When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
With Dio, my first time to Japan, middle of summer, and it was rainy, hot, humid. We went on at 2 AM after Foreigner and Sting and there were a couple of Japanese bands before us. Mama's Boys went on at the crack of dawn. They were serving breakfast backstage.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
So you kind of know that anytime we want, we could do a tour without even an album to promote, which is kind of reassuring, cos that's what most people are coming to see - just us doing the old classics.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
I think it was a wake up call for everybody. Yeah, they could see that I had a weakness and a tendency to overindulge.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
If you're driving, don't forget your car.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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If I couldn't play drums it would have destroyed me. If you're thrown in the deep end you swim, and that's basically what I did. I had to do it and with the rest of the band behind me and the encouragement I got from people from all over the world, I knew that I was going to play.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
We've always had a plan for success. From the very start we've known what we wanted to accomplish. Everything's progressed amazingly.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
We just did what we wanted to do. We never thought, 'Well, punk is fashionable, heavy metal is dated - let's be fashionable, let's be a punk band!'
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.
Rick Allen Def Leppard -
You'd be surprised how many records we've had to sell to pay our debts.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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The thing in Mexico in 1983. I don't want to get into it again because it will open up a whole can of worms, but I apologized profusely and it made me a better person. It was a mistake but it's something I learned from. The other biggest mistake I made was supporting Sheffield United because they're fucking useless.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
Mutt Lange is a slave driver, but he is a genius.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
I don't have to try and be a comedian to fit in the band. It's such a comfortable vibe. Had I been born in Sheffield, I probably would have been in the original lineup.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
I surprised my dad with a car for his birthday a couple of years ago, a BMW wrapped in ribbon, Jacki did that to me last Christmas. We had a party at our house and I was upstairs playing mixes of the album for Joey Allen and Rudy Sarzo. Jacki says there's kids fighting in the driveway, and I go outside and there's a Corvette with a bow around it. Everyone knew about it but me.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
People always ask me how we got the name Def Leppard. Actually, it came from a poster I had made which depicted a rather strange-looking jungle cat with a hearing horn at his ear. I called him the deaf leopard. The guys in the band loved the poster, and after a bit of work, we decided to call ourselves Def Leppard. The name is funny, but it has strength.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard
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This was our first, recorded in 1979 and released in 1980. Star struck teens at Ringo Starr's home recording studio in the South of England. Motorbikes in the swimming pool, Vodka bottles for daze. The most fun any band ever had doing any record in any studio ... which is why we never listen to it anymore.
Rick Savage Def Leppard -
I was tall and I had long hair and I didn't look wimpy.
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
We do see in the next few years more opportunities coming again for our company that we've not seen for the last two to three years.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
Some are more nuts than others. I've had my moments. But I don't think I'm really a typical drummer. I've met some that I couldn't keep up with.
Rick Allen Def Leppard