Monday, 26th October 2015
Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen has been interviewed by Indianapolis radio and mentioned the new studio album.
Phil talked about his new book Adrenalized, the new Def Leppard album, album tracklistings, Elton John, appearing on The Old Grey Whistle Test TV show in England, his musical tastes, reading books, playing guitar solos and if the band have been approached to play the Superbowl.
Phil says the album's tracklisting was very important to the band and mentions the closing track 'Blind Faith'.
Listen to the full 10 minute interview below. Phil's part starts from 17:41mins in until 27:15 mins.
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Flagrant Foul - Phil Collen Interview Quote
2015 Self Titled Studio Album
"This album has been probably the most inspired album we've done since Hysteria I think. You know it was - it came together. It was amazing how it worked. We did it over three sections over a year and a half. We went off on tour in between. Done all this stuff and we actually thought we was gonna go in just to write a single but in the process we actually got twelve songs. So it was pretty amazing, the whole thing."
New Album Tracklisting
"I think really on this record, it's so strong and in an era where you haven't really gottta make albums. And this is funny you mention that because we - our running order. I really wanted - we have this song called Blind Faith that really sounds like the, the climax or the finale of an album. And because people don't do albums they don't even worry about stuff like this any more."
"We really wanted to make it like an album. So it flowed like a classic album. There's almost like a concept to it and we put this song at the back and it's some people's favourite song. And they wanted to put it forward and have it come earlier. But the whole thing flowed. It was like a - like a book you know you got a front cover and a back cover and this song Blind Faith totally book ends the album perfectly - I think. And everyone one who has heard it since is like 'wow this is - what a great flow the record's got.' And we actually did go out of our way to try and get that stuff together so that's pretty interesting."
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