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After more than 45 years on stage, Def Leppard have become a household name across the globe and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and are currently on a sold-out world tour, but the bandmates insist they “aren’t really famous”.
Speaking at the Southbank Centre last month for an In Conversation event to promote their new book, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliot explained the “huge difference” between fame and popularity.
The 63-year-old singer shared: “We were never that kind of band that was a celebrity band. Yeah we’d be on all the rock magazines but you never saw us in the gossip columns in magazines the way you see JLo or Ben Affleck.”
He jokingly added: “I swear I could take a s**t on this stage and it wouldn’t make the papers,” inciting a roar of laughter from the audience, all donned in Def Leppard paraphernalia.
Joe noted that, speaking for every band member, it had only even been “about the music and the connection with our fans”.
He continued: “We wanted to be the biggest band in the world but never wanted anyone to recognise us when we came off stage.
“There’s a connection between the five of us that transcends anything I’m capable of talking about and that’s the essence. We wanted it because of the music.”
Guitarist Phil Collen noted that they were quite successful in this regard, revealing that even at the height of their fame in the early 1990s, after releasing the chart-topping hit Pour Some Sugar On Me, the band members individually still had a lot of freedom.
He shared: “We could still go out. Unless you were in a town that had MTV or were on tour there.
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He shared: “We could still go out. Unless you were in a town that had MTV or were on tour there.
The 65-year-old highlighted that usually once they got off stage “you could go back to being ignored”.
Even after four decades, the Rock legends show no signs of slowing down as the five-piece have released their new book, Definitely: The Official Story of Def Leppard, and dropped a new album in May, Drastic Symphonies.
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