Then when we get the album finished there may be the odd opportunity to do the occasional gig. When there's a hole in their schedule and a hole in mine we'll get together and do some work. But at this moment in time, and rightfully so, Leppard is priority, as are Quireboys for the rest of the guys. We're about six songs into a second album, which hopefully I'll get to finish off when this tour's done. Very '70s.Īre you working on anything with the band at the moment? 1 in America with "England Rocks" and "Overnight Angels," respectively, and we got to be second on the bill to ELP at the inaugural High Voltage festival in 2010, which was a lot of fun, including a proper full-on fistfight backstage with road crew which was brilliant. We've got the one album out, which did very well for us - we had a No.
Oh, good! So we do have a purpose in life! That's great! Well the Down 'n' Outz are in a holding pattern at the moment over Planet Rock. I remember hearing "Rocket" by Def Leppard as a kid and it made me go back and find out who all the bands were that you namechecked. This is the cure, not the virus.It makes total sense that you have the Down 'n' Outz play Mott The Hoople stuff. “We didn’t want people to put this on, hopefully, in ’25,’ 26, ’27 and go, ‘It’s dated.’ It isn’t all these references to needles and vaccines and lockdowns and isolation.
“It’s a COVID-free album you’ll have noticed,” he said. … I say if we are still enjoying it and can do what we’ve just done now in five, 10, 15 years' time, why not? Ian Hunter is 82! And he’s recording new material, recording new material right now.”Įlliott’s attitude to longevity was also instilled in the band’s latest album, Diamond Star Halos, which was recorded during their lockdown period. “You couldn’t live your life normally knowing the day you were gonna die,” he reflected. … I went, ‘Wow, I think we can do this for as long as we want to do this.’”Īfter that experience, the singer said there was no need to try and put an end date on Def Leppard’s run time. … Walking out there and that life-flashing-before-your-eyes-before-you-die moment – it was a career flashing before my eyes. “We did this gig in front of 45,000 people in our hometown, all our parents and friends in the stands, beautiful summer’s day, people we went to school with in the audience. His subconscious thinking crystallized “when we played Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, our hometown, and almost 15 years to the day since we formed,” he said. … can split, but individually they can go on for as long as they’re alive.” “Frank Sinatra can’t split up,” he pointed out. You know, that’s before the war broke out."Įlliott allowed that “old crooners” enjoyed decades-long careers, but that it was different for bands. He added that the group "never sat down and discussed it, but when you get together as a band, the mentality, psychologically back then, was five to 10 years, because there was no 40-year-old band, right? There was no band in 1977 that formed in 1937. And all these artists that we were growing up with were just starting to disintegrate or split except for the Stones and the Who.
Bowie was just coming out of his Berlin period. The Who was still the original four-piece. "When we formed, the Beatles had only been split seven years," he noted.
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