Honestly, it’s not a case of what drives us. What drives you to keep making records? So many of your peers gave up on that years ago. But I’ll hang my hat on it because I truly believe that we’ve made, from where we are on our careers now, a truly great record. And 45 years into this band, that’s a hell of a fucking statement to make. And I believe this is a quantum leap for us. But what came with those two records was a quantum leap. What came before, there was nothing wrong with. I don’t want to make this comparison musically, but I believe what this album has done to our legacy is very similar to what Rumours did for Fleetwood Mac or what Hotel California did for the Eagles. It’s not like, “Hey, let’s try and be Kraftwerk.” It’s us branching out. There’s what you might call “classic Leppard,” there’s some left-field stuff on this record, but it’s not for the sake of left field. This was even better since it broadened our horizons of what sort of material we want to sink our teeth into. Without any plans, we had an album, and it was awesome. Then we added two more to the pile later one. We accidentally made that one since we sat down to make three songs and came up with 12. I said that after the last record we did in 2014. Honestly, I swear to God, I don’t think we’ll ever make a record again in what you call the “traditional sense.” This is the most focused, enjoyable album that we’ve ever made. Let’s just do them and worry about how they sound at the end.” It gave us something to put our teeth into. We were thinking, “Why don’t we just trust each other that these songs are up to scratch? We wouldn’t suggest they were if they weren’t. Then we brought Savage in on the conversation and he had two ready to go. Phil had two he’d written on his own and two he’d co-written, so we had seven right there. But instead of doing that, we were in a situation where nobody felt peer pressure of four sets of eyes staring at them while they played the cassette. We used to just sit down together and play each other demos and hear what everyone thought. Tell me the process you guys used for recording this new record remotely. They were during our years when we weren’t supposed to be taking that much time off. The last show of the Hysteria tour in October 1988 and the first show of the Adrenalize tour in May 1992 was longer. Let’s not forget that between the last show of the Pyromania tour and the first show of the Hysteria tour was a lot longer than that. We’ve been off the road for two years and four months. What’s it been like to be home for so long? Def Leppard started touring in 1978, and you haven’t taken many long breaks since then. You’ve been off the road now since late 2019. We phoned up Elliott while he was driving around town (“I can walk and chew gum at the same time”) to talk about Diamond Star Halos, the upcoming tour, the band’s long hiatus from the road, selling their publishing, and why he doesn’t think Def Leppard will ever go on a true farewell tour. The process eventually led to their new record Diamond Star Halos, which arrives May 27, just a few weeks before the long-delayed tour with Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett finally kicks off in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s nothing new to us to piecemeal bits together.” We’d worked in two or three studios at once. We’d never done an entire album that way, but we’d certainly done bits of one. “By the end of that phone call, we decided that we could make a record remotely. “We spent 40 minutes on the phone going, ‘OK, now what?’ ” Elliott recalls. The singer called up guitarist Phil Collen at his home in California to try and figure out an alternate plan. Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind: The Grunge Ripple Effect in 10 Nineties Rock Songs “And so there we were, brides at the altar.”ĭef Leppard Preview New Song 'Kick' From Upcoming Album 'Diamond Star Halos'ĭef Leppard, Mötley Crüe Announce Rescheduled Summer Stadium Tour “They weren’t allowed to fly in from America,” Elliott says. They planned on coming together in late March, just as the pandemic was shutting down global travel along with the entire live music industry. They knew they wouldn’t have nearly enough time to finish an album, but they wanted to start the process and hopefully resume it once the tour wrapped for the year. In the spring of 2020, Def Leppard made plans to gather at Joe Elliott’s house in Ireland to record a handful of tunes before starting rehearsals for their stadium tour with Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett. Joe-elliott-credit-Anton-Corbijn - Credit: Anton Corbijn*
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