Monday, 24th November 2014
The Def Leppard EP
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott has spoken about The Def Leppard EP in a new video interview clip posted online.
Joe spoke in yet another promo video for The Bridge The Movie about the reasons behind the recording.
The Def Leppard EP was recorded over two days on 25th/26th November 1978 and the first edition (of three) released in January 1979.
It contained two songs re-recorded for the 1980 'On Through The Night' album. 'Ride Into The Sun' was also later re-written and re-recorded for the 'Hysteria' B Sides with a modified version included on the 1993 'Retro-Active' compilation album.
View the short video below.
Joe Elliott - Interview Quotes
"You do a few shows and you think christ. You know you're playing pubs and workingmen's clubs like do we have to do this for the rest of our lives?. No. We knew some friends that had made an EP. We went in and stole all their ideas. Got all the details of the studio. Borrowed the money off my Dad, begged him can we - you know he emptied his bank account to bank roll this first Def Leppard EP. So we had this vinyl in a picture cover. We had a sleeve - me and me Mum glued them all together. We had a thousand records and we sent them to John Peel and Bob Harris and all these BBC DJ's and all that kind of stuff."
"And it totally just put us into the next stratosphere. We didn't have to play clubs for three years to get noticed. We had A & R men banging on our door within three months because of this EP. That was a bridge, when we made that decision. We're not playing these clubs for the rest of our lives, this is just horrible. So you know we did everything we had to do. I did most of the work in fairness but you know on behalf of us. Now you've got to up your game because there's 11 A & R men who are watching you at Retford Porterhouse. Fuck up now and you're back to the factory you know. I could go on forever, you'll run out of film."
- News Source - youtube.com
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