![]() 2 in NZ), alongside " Pour Some Sugar on Me" (US No. 1 " Love Bites" (went Top 10 in several other countries including No. The album spawned six Top 20 US singles, including the US Billboard Hot 100 No. It has been certified 12× platinum for sales in the US and 13× platinum in Canada, selling over 25 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. ![]() 10 in Germany without any Top 50 singles in those countries. 2 on the US album chart, Pyromania was certified Diamond in the US and 7× platinum in Canada and reached the top 20 in the UK but did not sell much elsewhere.ĭef Leppard's fourth album, the more pop-oriented Hysteria (1987), topped the UK, US, New Zealand, Canadian, Australian and Norway charts. Def Leppard's next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with " Photograph" and " Rock of Ages" both topping the US Rock Tracks chart and reaching the top 20 of the Hot 100. Their second album, 1981's High 'n' Dry, was produced by Mutt Lange, who helped them begin to define their melodic hard rock style, and the album's most popular track " Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982, but the album only reached the Top 30 and 40 in the UK and US. Their first album, 1980's On Through the Night, reached the Top 15 in the UK but received little notice elsewhere. The band's greatest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement of the early 1980s. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Allen (drums), Phil Collen (guitar, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitar, backing vocals). ET to hear the show broadcast live on Sirius XM’s Volume, channel 106.Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield. What the hell does that make me? God Almighty!ĭownload and subscribe to Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on iTunes or Spotify, and check out two years worth of episodes. It makes no difference to me whether it’s a Ramones song or a Taylor Swift. It’s a one off project and you’ve got to sell yourself in the right light. And the fact that I was actually singing from the male point of view in some of her stuff, like in “Love Story.” As you say, I’m not going to sing something and half-ass it. There were a couple of moments where we sat down, me and Taylor sat down, and she says, “I can’t sing that line,” ’cause it was a bit too risqué, in So we’d swap things around. We turned up knowing all the chords, knowing all the lyrics. There weren’t really any difficulties. It was two shows and everybody did their homework. Can you imagine what that would sound like? ![]() ![]() Us doing something with Loudon Wainwright III or Leonard Cohen. Do you know what I mean? It’s like, I’d prefer the idea of Jon doing a song with like, Tom Waits. I loved the idea of something that’s gonna either piss people off or they go, good for you for doing something different. If you’re gonna do collaborations, I don’t see the point in us doing a song with Bon Jovi. Good luck to her for doing that, you know? The whole thing came together because somebody walked into our dressing room with a laptop… He goes, “It’s Taylor Swift, she’s doing this interview, and she said there was only band that she would ever do a Crossroads with, and it was Def Leppard.” We went, “Wow, OK, get in touch with her, see what she thinks.” Lo and behold, couple of months go by and, all of a sudden, we’re doing this show. We’ve always been that poke-noses-out-of-joint kind of band. In fairness, she really did go out, full bore, and conquer the world. Well, she was already pretty big, so the conquer the world was something that was either gonna happen or wasn’t. What signs did you see that this young woman was going to basically conquer the world? To hear the whole discussion, press play below or download and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. With the band set for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March (Swift will be eligible in 2031, if you’re keeping track), Elliott recently looked back on his band’s career on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast – including that collaboration. Ten years ago, Def Leppard teamed up with a teenage Taylor Swift for an episode of CMT’s Crossroads.
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