![]() ![]() He’s back in England now, getting his own band together and doing it exactly the way he wants to. It was probably best for us and best for him. I don’t know, it was just a personal thing with him. ![]() He wasn’t 100 percent happy with the way that we were actually doing the songs, etc. It just got to a point where he wanted to be in a band where he had complete control. Why did the guitarist on your first two albums, Pete Willis, leave the band? I spoke to Savage over the phone from Augusta, Georgia last week and asked him about the new album, its producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Foreigner), and the group’s hometown of Sheffield, England. Singer Joe Elliot, guitarists Steve “Steamin” Clark and Phil Collen, drummer Rick Allen and bassist Rick Savage will be dishing out their youthful brand of British boogie and, believe me, the only “pop” available will be the stuff you drink. In support of that platinum-selling LP, the boys in Def Leppard (their average age is around 21) will be performing with legendary rockers Uriah Heep next Wednesday, July 21. While it is true that Def Leppard‘s lyrical messages most often deal with the time-worn teenage pastimes of partying and getting it on, it’s not so much what they’re saying as how they’re saying it–with all the conviction and drive young hands can channel through a steaming stack of amplifiers.Īnd there must be a lot of record-buyers out there who like the hard-edged sound of Def Leppard, for the band’s latest album, Pyromania, is nudging Michael Jackson’s Thriller at the top of the North American record charts.
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