He has noted that the lyrics to Def Leppard's music are rarely personal they are meant to be easily accessible to the listener. Elliott soon became an integral part of the band while also contributing his songwriting skills.Īs a songwriter, Elliott has drawn from his eclectic tastes in music (ranging from pop-rock to folk) as sources of inspiration. The band claims that any apparent similarity of the name Led Zeppelin to Def Leppard was unintentional. Tony Kenning suggested they change the band name to " Def Leppard" to distinguish them from contemporary punk bands like The Flying Lizards and Boomtown Rats. The other members also took Elliott's suggestion to change their name to "Deaf Leopard." Elliott had invented the name for a band in his youth. Elliott tried out as a guitarist and, though the band had not heard Elliott sing, they were impressed by "his attitude and his ideas about being in a band" and he became the band's vocalist instead. The band spent hours talking and listening to records in Elliott's bedroom. Upon finding out that they were both musicians, Willis invited Elliott to meet the rest of the Atomic Mass members. Elliott met Pete Willis (a member of a local band called Atomic Mass) in November 1977 after missing a bus. He was educated at King Edward VII School. Joseph Thomas Elliott was born in Sheffield to Joseph William Elliott (1930–2011) and Cynthia Gibson. Elliott is known for his distinctive and wide ranging raspy singing voice. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard still in the band and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz. We’re so proud of how ‘Drastic Symphonies’ turned out and can’t wait to share it to the world.Joseph Thomas Elliott (born 1 August 1959) is an English rock singer, best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. It’s a new DEF LEPPARD album, it’s a greatest-hits-plus album, with some rarely heard songs, it’s a live RPO album and we think it’s perfect. An absolute team effort that took a good part of a year. It was an amazingly inspirational process culminating in the live recording of the RPO at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording new parts, remixing previous sounds, taking some of our instruments out so the orchestra could breathe and literally making a new album. We decided to create something special where we would have something classic but present it in a brand new way that would involve making everything work in the context of ‘Drastic Symphonies’. But we didn’t just want an orchestra plonked over our previous recordings. 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).ĭEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen says: “When the offer of doing an orchestral album with the RPO was suggested, we were honored. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was recorded at Abbey Road in March 2022. This album represents a bold new approach to DEF LEPPARD‘s most loved songs. Although we’re far from the first band to ever do this, working directly with an orchestra at Abbey Road on some of our more orchestrated songs seemed too good of an opportunity to pass up.” So, when the offer to revisit some of our back catalogue with the Royal Philharmonic was presented to us, to a man we all jumped at it. At different points you can hear vocalist Joe Elliott dueting with his younger self.Įlliott says: “ DEF LEPPARD has always enjoyed veering off the expected path - working with the likes of Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift and Alison Krauss, for example. 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. DEF LEPPARD have deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their most well-known tracks but also some of their hidden gems as well.
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