Summer of 2019 sees them embarking on a tour through Canada, England, and Northern Europe. This current lineup has endured together for a quarter of a century, longer than the entire lifespan of lesser bands.Īs seen throughout 2018's 30th-anniversary tour, the members of Def Leppard remain in peak form and the band is a live-performance powerhouse. The final puzzle piece, Vivian Campbell, signed on after the 1994 death of original guitarist Steve Clark. Today, at 61 years old, he gives a new definition to the term "dad bod" (dude is ripped). After joining the band during the recording of 1982's Pyromania, guitarist Phil Collen quit booze, went vegetarian, and began studying martial arts. When Allen lost his left arm after crashing his Corvette in 1984, the band never considered replacing him. 1 album, they've survived all manner of rockstar antics over the course of their career through luck, fortitude, and good choices. They soon found themselves swept up in the late-1970s wave of British metal that included Iron Maiden and Motorhead. The band's longest-standing members - singer Joe Elliott, bassist Rick Savage, and drummer Rick Allen - met as teenage secondary-school students in Sheffield, England. With more than 100 million albums sold, dozens of arena-filling world tours under their spiked belts, and an upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Def Leppard is headbanging as hard as ever - and once again launching themselves into a globe-spanning concert tour.ĭef Leppard's longevity is all the more surprising given their debaucherous origins. Going strong for more than four decades, the British heavy-metal heavyweights are the world's premier torchbearers of the hard-partying, fist-pumping, ear-splitting hard-rock tradition. The world is a confusing place, but there's one resounding truth we can all count on: Def Leppard will rock you.
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