Wednesday, 11th November 2015
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Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott has been interviewed by the Australian press and mentioned the new album.
Joe talked about past visits to Australia, the high and lows of the band, the new studio album, its title, Let's Go, the 2015 Australian tour, the live show and a quick message to the Australian fans.
The band play three shows in Australia starting in Sydney on the 17th November.
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Visit the 2015 Tour News section. For more news on future tour plans.
Full Throttle Rock - Joe Elliott Interview Quote
Reaction To Let's Go
"Mostly positive. At the end of the day it's classic Leppard. It's got that Let's Get Rocked, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock Of Ages anthemic, stadium rock thing about it. Even the song Undefeated off the Mirrorball record; it's the same kind of thing. It's one of those songs when you hear it you, you go this would sound great in Madison Square Garden or Rod Laver Arena, in these big iconic buildings all round the world. It's one of those songs that leaps out. And it is classic Leppard. We weren't trying to reinvent the wheel. Sav, our bass player Rick Savage, came up with that song and we knew it sounded like an echo of our past and we were more than happy to do that."
"When you think about some of the greatest bands in the world, they're always hoping to rewrite some of their hits, instead of going off on tangents. AC/DC, everything they do sounds like everything they've ever done. And I mean that in a positive way; you're not going to get a piano ballad or an acoustic song off AC/DC, you're going to get things that sound familiar like Highway To Hell or Back In Black, that's what they do. What we did on that one song was go into a territory that we've been in before which is kind of slow, sexy, groovy thing with the big anthemic chorus, huge guitars, big drums; the usual thing that Leppard is renowned for and that our fans really enjoy. So we're not going to deny ourselves the opportunity to write a song like that, but it's just one of 14 and everything else on the record doesn't sound like that one song. So we were more than happy to put all our eggs in one basket on that particular song, in that direction."
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