Monday, 11th May 2015
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed by That Metal Show and talked about he new album in an extra video clip.
Joe talked about his musical inspirations, his first concert, strange fan requests, Muse being produced by Mutt Lange, Pete Willis and the 2015 studio album.
A photo gallery has been added to the show page from the main interview.
View the full 6 minute video in the playlist below along with the full 25 minute interview.
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That Metal Show - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes
2015 Studio Album Musical Direction
"It's all over the place. Stylistically-wise it's - I can't really pin point because every song is different from every other song. We've always been - we've always aimed at that. We hit it for the first time on Hysteria where we - we'd had an album that allowed us to go in any direction we wanted to. It wasn't just purely hard rock or metal, there was pop, there was ballady stuff, there was everything other than acoustic - we didn't have that covered at the time but we did that a year later with Two Steps Behind."
"There's some real classic Leppard sounding stuff on the new album but there's also some stuff that a band that's of our standing - basically in our 50's should be doing. Which is a little bit more. I don't want to say grown up because that makes it sound boring but a little but more organic. I think is probably the best way to put it. You know where we've allowed our roots or our the music that we're steeped in of other people to soak into our music a little bit more. So whereas you know you can listen to a Zeppelin album and go I can hear a little bit of Muddy Waters in there or a little bit of this, that and the other."
"You'll be able to hear, say, that sounds a bit like because we've been honest enough to just say well if it sounds a bit like this song sounds like Zeppelin or this song sounds like Queen. Then that's us, that's because we always did but we weren't trying to disguise everything too much. We just let it breathe and just be natural. So it's a very mixed bag of songs because there's 15 of them on the go. I don't know how many of them will make the album but I'm hoping most of them will because they're all very different from each other and very representative of who we are right now."
- Def Leppard - That Metal Show 2015 Show Page
- Def Leppard - Television 2015
- Def Leppard - 2015 Album News
- Previous News - 10th May 2015