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JOE ELLIOTT: How DEF LEPPARD Survived The Rise Of Grunge In '90s

Meltdown of the WRIF radio station in Detroit, Michigan recently conducted an interview with DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Speaking about how DEF LEPPARD survived the rise of grunge in the early '90s, Elliott said: "What we did in the '9...
April 14, 2016
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ENUFF Z'NUFF's New Album To Include One Of JANI LANE's Final Recordings

Frontiers Music Srl has announced the signing of ENUFF Z'NUFF. The band's brand new studio album will arrive in the fall. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Good Luv", "Radio", "Nothing" and "The Devil Of Shakespeare". Wrongly lumped in with the disposable pop-metal bands of the late '80s,...
April 13, 2016
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DEF LEPPARD Singer JOE ELLIOTT Is 'Back To Normal' After Battling Vocal Issues

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen was recently interviewed by the Corpus Christi, Texas radio station C101. You can now listen to the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On how DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott is doing, less than two months after the band was f...
March 25, 2016
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DEF LEPPARD Announces 55-City North American Tour With REO SPEEDWAGON, TESLA

DEF LEPPARD will return to the road this summer for an extensive tour across North America due to overwhelming demand. The Live Nation-promoted outing will storm through 55 cities across all parts of the U.S. and Canada. It is set to kick off on May 1 in Orlando, Florida and wrap on October 10 in .....
February 29, 2016
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DEF LEPPARD Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates

DEF LEPPARD has rescheduled the majority of their recently postponed tour dates with STYX and TESLA, according to The Pulse Of Radio. The tour played just one show — January 29 in Sunrise, Florida — before the dates were pulled with LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen tweeting about frontman Joe Elliott: "Th...
February 24, 2016
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DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL: Fans Won't Have To Wait As Long For Next Album

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell has told Billboard.com that he is confident that the band's fans won't have to wait another seven years before the release of a new studio album. "I do think [the success of last year's self-titled effort] encouraged us a lot to the extent I think we'll see anot...
February 17, 2016
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DEF LEPPARD's JOE ELLIOTT Was Told He 'Would Do Irreparable Damage' If He Continued Singing

DEF LEPPARD was forced to postpone the last ten dates of its tour with STYX and TESLA due to LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott suffering from vocal issues. Speaking to Italy's Linea Rock on Tuesday (February 2),DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell said: "Joe has been having some problems with his voice...
February 3, 2016
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Video: ALICE COOPER Drummer GLEN SOBEL Performs At Cascio Interstate Music's DrummerFest

Video footage of ALICE COOPER drummer Glen Sobel's October 24 performance at the 2015 Cascio Interstate Music's 15th annual DrummerFest in New Berlin, Wisconsin can be seen below. Sobel was on a short break from his current tour with Alice as special guest on MÖTLEY CRÜE's "The Final Tour". Also per...
November 4, 2015
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DEF LEPPARD Announces 2016 Tour Dates With STYX, TESLA

Following the announcement of the band's new self-titled studio album, DEF LEPPARD has just extended its massively successful North American tour due to overwhelming demand. The trek, supported by STYX and TESLA, will commence in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 27, 2016. The dates are as follo...
October 21, 2015
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DEF LEPPARD Releases First Video Teaser For Forthcoming Album

DEF LEPPARD has released a ten-second video teaser for its forthcoming self-titled album. Check it out below. DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott told North Dakota's Grand Forks Herald that the band's new disc is just called "Def Leppard" "because that's what it sounds like. It doesn't sound like any one...
September 2, 2015
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KISS Drummer ERIC SINGER: I've Never Once Been Told To Sing, Play And Act Like PETER CRISS

In a brand new interview with MichaelCavacini.com, KISS drummer Eric Singer spoke about what it was like coming back to the band as the replacement for Peter Criss during the "farewell tour." He said: "At that point, I was still playing with Alice Cooper. When they did the reunion tour, I didn't hav...
August 30, 2015
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DEF LEPPARD's VIVIAN CAMPBELL Doesn't Want To Be Associated With 'Clown' DONALD TRUMP

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell says that he hopes that the reports of his band being introduced by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at next month's Iowa State Fair are untrue, because wouldn't want his name associated with "this clown." CNN reported last Friday (July 17) that Tr...
July 20, 2015
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DEF LEPPARD To Be Introduced by DONALD TRUMP At Iowa State Fair

According to CNN, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will introduce DEF LEPPARD at the Iowa State Fair on August 15. The concert, which also features STYX and TESLA, will take place at the State Fair Grandstand on the fairgrounds in Des Moines. Trump is doing well in the polls despite hi...
July 17, 2015
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Cancer-Stricken DEF LEPPARD Guitarist VIVIAN CAMPBELL: 'I Would Much Rather Die On My Feet Than Die On My Knees'

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell, who feared the return of his cancer would prevent him from touring this summer, rejoined his bandmates on the road at the end of last month. LEPPARD is currently headlining a massive summer tour with STYX and special guests TESLA, and Campbell — who suffers fro...
July 10, 2015
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DEF LEPPARD's PHIL COLLEN: SPOTIFY Is As Bad As NAPSTER Was For Songwriters And Artists

DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen says that music streaming service Spotify is an exploitative enterprise which is just as bad as Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak o...
July 5, 2015