Friday, 24th May 2013
Screenshot by DefDazz/Darren
Tim McGraw picked Def Leppard classic Pour Some Sugar On Me as one of his Tracks Of My Years on BBC Radio 2.
Tim appeared as the featured artist this week on the Ken Bruce show picking some of his favourite songs. Today he chose Bruce Springsteen and Def Leppard.
Tim performed the song with the band on 13th October 2006 at the Hollywood Bowl. Listen to the segment from today's show below which starts at 10:35mins in. The full show (with all of PSSOM played) is available via the link (starting at 2hrs8min in).
Tim also recently did his own Las Vegas residency in Jan/Feb 2013 playing 24 shows on 12 different days (2 per day). He played his first UK solo show at the The O2 Arena in London on 16th March.
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce Show - Tim McGraw Quote
"Who doesn't love Def Leppard? I grew up listening to Def Leppard from Junior High, High School and PSSOM was always that party track for us in High School. I grew up in the country so I spent a lot of time in cotton fields late at night with tailgates down in our pick ups trucks with a bonfire. You know burning a big fire and having radios cranked up and I can't remember one single night when PSSOM wasn't turned up as loud as it could possibly go where the speakers were crackling."
"And to sort of bring it around full circle my tour manager for a lot of years who's a great friend of mine who now is one of Taylor Swift's managers. Robert Allen who's from Sheffield and his brother's Rick, the drummer in Def Leppard so I have a sort of relationship with those guys and then later on I got to write a song with those guys and perform a song with them on their album, called Nine Lives which was a big thrill for me."
- News Source/Listen to the full show at - bbc.co.uk
- Def Leppard - Nines Lives Single