![]() He really is the perfect person to work with." He's very creative, a great musician, a great singer. "It was like a refresher course to remind us how we used to do it. "It was a huge, huge education," said Allen of Lange's return to the fold. Though Lange hadn't been hands-on with a Leppard record since Hysteria, he was lured back into the fold for a few songs on Euphoria, helping his former proteges remember how they'd pieced together their greatest hits. I suppose people can say we've gone back to what we used to do, but I think it's more a case of nobody makes records like us, and if anybody's got the God-given right to do it, it's us."Īs Def Leppard fans are well aware, their biggest records bore the production stamp of Robert John "Mutt" Lange, whose meticulous approach to sound and songwriting wasn't easily imitated. "In 1996, I don't think we could have made Euphoria we would have been laughed off the face of the planet. " Slang was just something we'd been craving to do and we got it out of our system, but then we were happy to go back to making classic Def Leppard again," explained Elliott. I think throughout the '90s we were afraid of doing anything that sounded like Def Leppard up until this point." That is what happens with all movements after a while, like the grunge thing became a parody of itself. and what happens is that people just get fed up. God knows how many bands sounded like us. "We tried to get away from it before because it got burned out. ![]() "It was funny, when we actually went to record some of this stuff – as soon as it started sounding like that, we were like, 'Wow!' It was almost like we forgot how to do that," continued Collen. Returning to that old sound wasn't as simple as pressing a button. We went back and literally we sort of did another 'greatest hits.'" "I literally asked a few people in the business, as well as fans, 'What would you like to hear?' and everyone said unanimously, 'There is a huge void and it would be fuckin' great if you sounded like Def Leppard.' So that is what we did. We were sort of stuck somewhere between the Spice Girls and Oasis," laughed Collen. When singer Joe Elliott, guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell, bassist Rick Savage, and drummer Rick Allen reconvened following the Slang tour, they spent some time taking stock of where they stood after their massive rise and relative stumble – and the answers weren't necessarily easy to find.
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