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Phil Collen Gives Details Of Five New Def Leppard Album Tracks

Monday, 21st September 2015





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Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen has given details of five new songs from the upcoming album in a preview of the UK fanpack.

Phil talked to Classic Rock magazine in the UK about the new songs which seems to be a preview of the Track By Track guide in the new CD fanpack.

He describes five of the songs from new album which is out on 30th October.

'Broke 'n' Brokenhearted' is revealed as the song he wrote with Joe in ten minutes.

Read some quotes below and follow the link to read the full descriptions.

Visit the Album News section. For more news on new music (based on band member quotes) dating back to January 2011.

Classic Rock - Phil Collen Interview Quotes

Man Enough

"I had this bass riff floating around my head, and I wanted it to have a similar vibe to Billy Jean by Michael Jackson – almost a disco vibe. I didn’t know what it was going to be called, then I played it to Joe; we went to Rick Allen’s 50th birthday, and he said ‘shit! I’ve got a great idea for this song! And it’s called ‘Are You Man Enough To Be My Girl’. People have said it reminds them of Another One Bites The Dust by Queen."

Energized

"I wanted the song to be about...this is really weird, but it’s about the sexual urge – having this feeling, and what that does to a person. So it’s not really about a person or a situation, it’s about a biological event that we go through, which does sound weird I realise. But that really is what it’s about. I wanted it to have an almost Top 40 feel about it. So me and Ronan [McHugh, Leppard producer] demoed it in a day and then just added to it. It’s absolutely Def Leppard."

Let’s Go

"The lead-off single, but it was actually one of the last tracks in the sessions. That was a Rick Savage song he’d had floating around for a while, but it was very pop-orientated. When we started recording, the guitars were a little lightweight. We decided they needed to be way more aggressive and nasty. So that was the second coat of paint, if you like – we replaced some of the stuff we’d done earlier and just made it way more violent and aggressive."

Sea Of Love

"I thought the guys were gonna hate it, but I showed it to them anyway. And they really liked it. So I thought ‘OK I guess it’s not going to be a Delta Deep song then!’ And then it took on a different life when Rick Allen started doing his drums – it ended up being a lot jazzier, it was almost a Hendrix-type thing. Joe sang it differently to how I did it, and me, Sav and Vivian got together to our choir-style vocals... It was a joy, it was such a thrill. This whole album’s been one of my favourite Def Leppard recordings – shocking, in a good way!"

Broke 'n' Brokenhearted

"Ronan was packing up all the stuff, and he was going to go home after five o’clock on a Friday… Me and Joe were sitting on the couch and he says ‘I’ve got this idea for this song,’ and he just started playing a couple of chords, and I say ‘I’ve got a chorus for that!’ We wrote it in about ten minutes. We’d never done that before. We said ‘Ronan, I don’t think you can go home yet’ and did a half-hour demo."






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