Quotes -- By Def Leppard/Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift - "My mom was a huge fan of theirs when she was pregnant with me," Swift says. "So growing up, the music that was playing in my house was Def Leppard. It was music that she liked that I could like too."

Joe Elliott - "The first thing we did is Google 'Taylor Swift' and we were like, 'Whoa! She's only a kid!'" said Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott. "Then you start listening to the songs and it's like, 'Why wouldn't we want to do this?' I mean she's one of the biggest stars in America now. It's flattering."

Taylor Swift - "This is my childhood dream come true," Swift told the crowd after singing Def Leppard's "Photograph." "I'm freaking out that that just happened!"

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The pairing was not something created by the show's producer, but instead by Swift herself, as she told us: "I've wanted to do Crossroads with Def Leppard since I heard about Crossroads. I always thought, 'That would be so fun to get these crazy British guys with these awesome songs and they're rock stars and my band would freak out.'It never occurred to me that we'd actually get to do it."

Swift took the bull by the horns and asked one of the members of Def Leppard about doing the show with her. "I actually made a phone call to the drummer a year ago. I was on tour with Tim (McGraw) and Faith (Hill) and I heard through the grapevine that Tim's tour manager was Rick Allen, the drummer's brother, so I kept bothering this guy, like bugging him non-stop, like, 'Hey, can I have a call with your brother? I need to talk to him about something. Can I please call him? And one night he came on my tour bus and he was like, 'I got someone on the phone for you,' and it was Rick Allen."

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"Performing with Def Leppard was awesome!" says Swift. "It was the coolest thing in the world to have my band on stage with them, because for the past two years, before we go on stage we listen to Def Leppard and just rock out and jump around. And then, we were playing on the same stage as they were. It was the most amazing feeling in the world, and we were all just trying to act cool the whole time."

"What an absolute pleasure it was to work with Taylor and her band who are a great set of musicians," says Leppard's Elliott. "Myself and Taylor blended really well together, I think, and everybody, both bands and the crowd, had a great time. I'm really glad we had the opportunity to do this."

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