Subscribe to Consequence’s email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox. Jack White Posts Original Poem Responding to Tired, Dumb Debate Over Meg White's Drumming Ability A newly re-imagined orchestral version of Animal can be. Willie Nelson Announces 2023 Outlaw Music Festival Tour with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, The Avett Brothers, and Moreĭef Leppard Drummer Rick Allen Violently Attacked Outside Hotel in Florida Def Leppard have teamed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the collaborative album Drastic Symphonies, arriving May 19th. The Cure Announce Ticket Policy to Ensure "Affordable" Pricing for Fans On January 26, Swedish rockers GHOST will release a new version of their song 'Spillways' featuring a guest appearance by DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott. Joe Elliott, singer of Def Leppard, performing during a concert between Def Leppard and Motley Crue bands, at Estadio Banorte on Februin Monterrey, Mexico. Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott guests in the 15th installment of the long-running storyline, which usually features Tobias Forge playing several of his iconic characters in a dramatic, lore-building narrative that's been doled out in soap opera-sized bits over the course of several years. Stevie Nicks Delivers Tearful Tribute to Christine McVie with "Landslide" Performance: Watch Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott see himself as the bands resident archivist, a role he gladly embraced on the bands first three box sets, chronicling 1979 - 1981, the 80s and the 90s. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad (vinyl/Blu-Ray bonus track)ĭef Leppard Announce Album with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Share Re-Imagined “Animal”: Stream Pour Some Sugar on Me (Stripped version)ġ6. In Collen’s words, Drastic Symphonies is both “a new Def Leppard album” and “a greatest hits.”Ġ4. At times, you can hear Joe Elliott duetting with his younger self, and the new orchestral mix is a completely different experience than the classic Hysteria track. Rather than performing live alongside the orchestra, a la Metallica’s S&M, Drastic Symphonies is an ambitious studio project, combining specific audio from the original master tapes of the songs, fresh guitar/vocal overdubs, and symphonic arrangements recorded by the RPO at Abbey Road studios.Īs heard on the new version of “Animal,” the results are far from “an orchestra plonked over our previous recordings,” as guitarist Phil Collen put it. The collection features 15 orchestral re-workings of some of Def Leppard’s most iconic tracks, as well as a few deep cuts from their catalog. A newly re-imagined orchestral version of “Animal” can be streamed now. It wasn’t until maybe a month later when somebody wrote it out again that we noticed, ‘Well, it looks like Led Zeppelin,’ but at the time, we all went, ‘We’d rather look like them than The Flying Lizards, so stick with it.’ Silly name, really, but look at racehorses-I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that doesn’t have a silly name.The post Def Leppard Announce Album with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Share Re-Imagined “Animal”: Stream appeared first on Consequence.ĭef Leppard have teamed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the collaborative album Drastic Symphonies, arriving May 19th. Elliott remembers Kenning saying, “If we just lose the ‘a’ and turn the ‘o’ into a ‘p,’ it’ll look as good as it sounds.”Įlliott added, “Tony just drew a line through the A and stuck a line down the O so we could still see the original spelling, but he had graffiti on top. Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield. Joe Elliott took over the band as lead vocalist and renamed the rock outfit Deaf Leopard in 1977. A trio, originally known as 'Atomic Mass' included bassist Rick Savage, lead guitarist Pete Willis, and drummer Tony Kenning. Eventually, I just started making names up because I got bored, and one of them just happened to be Def Leppard.”įirst spelled out as Deaf Leopard, the other band members weren’t too keen on being called something named after a wild cat with hearing impairment before original drummer Tony Kenning suggested going with the phonetic spelling of the word “Deaf” in the band name. Original member of Def Leppard since inception (1977). “I spent the whole term just making up posters for bands that I’d like to see or wish I’ve seen. Can I do a rock poster?’” said Elliott, who said the band had the name written on the wall of their rehearsal room. “The great thing about art is it’s subjective, so you can talk to the teacher and go, ‘Look, I don’t want to do this bowl of fruit. Trying to make the class assignment more interesting for himself, he decided to start designing rock concert posters instead of painting traditional still-life fruit bowls. It was 1975, and frontman Joe Elliott was creating fake band names for a school art project.
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