Monday, 6th October 2014
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Def Leppard members Joe Elliott and Rick Savage were interviewed by BT Sport 1 show BTSP last week and a photo gallery is available.
Joe and Sav appeared in a short two minute segment choosing the musical five a side football team.
The BTSP show was first broadcast on Wednesday 1st October from 7:15-7:45am and has since been repeated on BT Sport 1 and 2.
Joe/Sav taped their segment on 26th September in London.
BTSP 2014 - Joe Elliott/Rick Savage Transcript
Presenters - "We have Def Leppard taking us through their musical 5 a side football team."
Sav - "We are two thirds of Def Leppard - sorry, two thirds are we?......"
Presenters - "Now Def Leppard who are playing at Wembley for the NFL."
Presenter - "Who are Def Leppard?."
Presenter - "These guys." - PSSOM clip played.
Presenter - "Oh I love that tune."
Presenter - "Yeah me too and they took us through their musical 5 a side football team."
Presenter - "I don't know who they chose but I bet it was rock and roll."
Joe - "If I was to choose a person to be a goalkeeper he would need to be good with his hands. Good at distribution - Brian May from Queen."
Sav - "As a goal keeper?!."
Joe - "Yeah."
Sav - "No, I'm not having that. No, sorry. I think actually Roger Taylor's quite a - Roger Taylor from Queen."
Joe - "Roger Taylor yeah."
Sav - "Defender. Somebody that - likes destroying things."
Joe - "Joey Ramone."
Sav - "Joey Ramone, perfect."
Joe - "Joey Ramone. Complete spoiler."
Joe - " I think Noel Gallagher would be either a good defender or a good midfield player."
Joe - "Okay somebody fast - can slip to the side."
Sav - "Somebody a bit..."
Joe - "How about Eddie Van Halen?."
Sav - "I was gonna say Eddie Van Halen cause he's a bit - he's a bit flash. He'd be a cool winger."
Joe - "Definitely centre forward or up front David Coverdale."
Sav - "Yeah. Knows where the back of the net is."
Joe - "Knows where he's going. Knows where he wants to go."
Sav - "But he doesn't know where he's been."
Joe - "Yeah does......hahaha - fantastic!."
Sav - "Joe's a great motivator."
Joe - "Okay I'm coach then. Great."
Sav - "Hmm."
Joe - "Okay so somebody that we really like that's sold no records yet."
Sav - "Emm?. Yeah that's a - that's a good choice actually. Emm's a friend of ours. From Toronto right?."
Joe - "Yeah. She'd be our ball girl."
Sav - "She'd definitely - she'd fit the bill."
Joe - "There you go BTSP. Hope you enjoyed our musical fantasy football team."
Sav - "We certainly had some fun picking it out and we hope you agree with us."
Joe - "See ya later."
On todays show - Mean tweets from Leighton Baines, @def_leppard chose their Musical 5 aside dream team and some bad Gymnastics.
— BTSP (@BTSP) October 1, 2014- View the photo gallery - BTSP 2014 Show Page
- Def Leppard - London 2014 Show Page
- Previous News - 26th September 2014