Pour Some Sugar On Me (Stripped Version)Ītmos version will also feature a bonus track. We are always looking to just keep moving forward and doing something different.'Ġ4. And to be putting out this record only nine months after 'Diamond Star Halos', it just shows there's a forward momentum, not just from a touring point of view, but from a career point of view. It was like singing with a ghost that's still alive, if that makes any sense.'Įlliott added: 'Yeah, it turned out really, really well. The timing and the phrasing came to me instantly - it's like it never left my DNA - but it was one of the strangest things I've ever done. It's the most bizarre thing I've ever done. So on one of the tunes, which is a song called 'Too Late For Love', I did a duet with myself from 40 years ago. I re-sang some of them, because the original vocals were out of place once you put an orchestra on it. We took these songs all the way back to the beginning. We wanted to make sure that everybody knows this is not just the records from the past with an orchestra chucked on the top like icing on a cake. Joe told 'The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show': 'What we've done is we've reworked 16 of our most symphonic songs and done them with the Royal Philharmonic. Produced by DEF LEPPARD, Ronan McHugh and Nick Patrick (producer of the following RPO/orchestral albums - Elvis, Roy Orbison, BEACH BOYS and Buddy Holly) with arrangements by Eric Gorfain ( Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams, Christina Aguilera). The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was recorded at Abbey Road in March 2022. So we had it ready to go the following year, which is now.' We were in Abbey Road recording this record without telling anybody.

And then with the COVID, we did the new record … It's only nine months ago now. And, obviously, because we were touring, we were sidetracked. At different points you can hear vocalist Joe Elliott dueting with his younger self.Īsked by BBC Radio 2's 'The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show'how the 'Drastic Symphonies' project came about, Elliott said: 'We first discussed this - it was put on our plate by some grownups about four years ago.

The album includes new vocals and guitars which culminates in stunningly beautiful symphonic arrangements. By and large, they have intertwined the audio from the original tapes and performed them alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

'Drastic Symphonies' features DEF LEPPARD's greatest produced tracks dramatically reimagined and sounding larger and more exhilarating than ever before, teamed with London's iconic Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.ĭEF LEPPARD have deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their most well-known tracks but also some of their hidden gems as well. All rights reserved.DEF LEPPARD has released the video for 'Hysteria', the second track off the band's upcoming album, 'Drastic Symphonies'. He adds, “If that’s all we ever got, fair enough, but you don’t stand at the bottom of Mount Everest saying, ‘Oh, I just want to get a hundred yards up.’ You want to get to the summit.”Ĭopyright © 2023, ABC Audio.

That wasn’t an ambition that resonated with me.” “I didn’t see the point, with all due respect, of being a band that once got to No. “We always had ambitions … saying, ‘We are gonna be the biggest band in the world,’” he explains. “But it was saturated.”ĭef Leppard survived by taking risks, like their latest album, and those risks brought the band to the place Elliott always wanted them to be – on top. “I think he’d have been fine with it if we’d have been the only ones out there,” he adds. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Joe Elliott insists he had “no issues with (Nirvana’s) Kurt Cobain trying to kill the ‘80s,” adding, “I don’t think he tried to kill Def Leppard I think he tried to kill 99 copyists.” The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers dropped the official visualizer for the new take on the 1987 classic “ Hysteria.”ĭef Leppard is one of the few bands from the ’80s that is still making records and having hits today, with many rock bands of that period not surviving the ’90s grunge era of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Def Leppard’s new album, Drastic Symphonies, featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, comes out May 19, and they’ve just given fans another taste of what to expect.

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