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Rick Allen Comments On One Direction Song

Friday, 3rd January 2014





Rick Allen 2014.
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Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen has spoken about the One Direction song and its similarities to Pour Some Sugar On Me.

As you may recall certain 'news' websites suggested the band were going to sue One Direction over their song 'Midnight Memories' in December 2013 which was denied by Phil and Vivian.

Rick was approached by a random nut from TMZ recently and asked about this - transcript and video below.

Rick Allen Quotes

"No, no, not at all. I see the similarity. But those three chords have been used for, you know for decades. It's like, it's not new and if anything we felt as though it was a huge compliment. You know it's nice that their fans can see you know kinda where they may have been influenced."

Legal Action?

"No, there's no point in doing that - in taking any action. You know if we were to take action against them I'm sure there's a hundred other bands that would take action against us. You know where we borrowed it from."

"A lot of people have been asking us are you gonna sue? and it's like that never came into our minds at all. If anything we were like wow this far into our career this is just a huge compliment so if anything it was them paying homage to Def Leppard in their own way."






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