Wednesday, 28th October 2015
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott was interviewed yesterday by Weslaco, TX radio and recounted the story of the new album's recording.
Joe talked about the 2015 self titled studio album, Let's Go, the 2016 tour extension with Styx/Tesla, the Hysteria On the High Seas cruise, the second residency for Pyromania, Ded Flatbird and past Corpus Christi shows.
Joe recounted the basic story of how the album was recorded - with less than 2 days until it's release.
Listen to the full 10 minute interview below.
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Hitman/105.5 The X - Joe Elliott Interview Quotes
The New Self titled Def Leppard Album?
"That's correct yes, the first one in 35 years. Well 14 tracks. Recorded at my own studio. We started about February last year. Just getting some writing together. We didn't actually initially set out to make an album. We just thought let's write two or three songs and see what we get. And lo and behold by the end of that month we had 12 songs cooking. You know in different levels of finished. Some half baked and all of a sudden it's like well how are we gonna pick three from these twelve and then we were like, well, why do we have to?."
"And all of a sudden when everybody's been telling us for years that the album is dead. We decided no it isn't. And we came up with two more songs when we got back together in May and we worked on the rest of them on and off throughout the tour. We did some work at my studio. We did some stuff in hotels. We did some stuff in backstage rooms. We really kinda you know just let it have it's own energy and it was great to do it that way. You know it's the only album we've ever made that wasn't made for a reason. You know every album we've ever recorded was part of a contract. Where you have to deliver it. There's people sniffing around looking for hit singles and all that kind of crap. And all we did with this was write 14 songs that we really liked and then put it up on the auction block to see if anybody really wanted to take it or not you know. The freedom that allows any artist when you're just making the record for fun and for artistic reasons as opposed to for contractual reasons is unbelievable. It's such a fun way to work."
Let's Go
"It's one of those songs when we kind of approached the way we were doing stuff and playing each other our ideas. We'd kind of giggle and smile and go that sounds like us you know. And it's like well yeah it does and once we'd established the fact that we didn't care. And then it's like you know we are who we are. We're not afraid of it. We're not embarrassed by it. We write great four minute pop rock stuff. Big choruses and anthemic hooks and that stuff. That's what we do. So we weren't gonna avoid doing it just because we'd done it in the past."
"But at the same time we also did spread our wings out a little bit. And this is no brother or sister song to that song on the album anywhere. There's nothing sounds like it. So it does have the diversity that we were looking for. So when you actually get deep into record that there's all sorts of influences coming out. From our childhood you know. Queen, Bowie, The Faces, Zeppelin, The Beatles. You can hear little snippets. Whereas in the past we might have tried to disguise that. We just let it come oozing out on this record because it was just the freedom of like going, it doesn't matter, it's fine. This is who we are, why try and pretend we're not you know. So there's everything that you can imagine on this record."
- Interview Source - 1055thex.com
- Def Leppard - Hitman 2015 Show Page
- Def Leppard - Radio 2015
- Def Leppard - 2015 Album News
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