DEF LEPPARD singer Joe Elliott spoke to Grand Forks Herald about the band’s forthcomingself-titled album, tentatively due before the end of the year. He said: “It’s finished. We’re just doing simple, last-minute adjustments. The first song is going to go to radio next month. It’s a 14-track, 55-minute album. It’s just called ‘Def Leppard’ because that’s what it sounds like. It doesn’t sounds like any one specific era of DEF LEPPARD. It’s got everything. You’ll listen and you go, ‘Oh, that sounds like DEF LEPPARD,’ or you’ll go, ‘That is LEPPARD, but sounds a bit like LED ZEPPELIN or QUEEN but you can hear the AC/DC or the CROSBY, STILLS & NASH coming through.’ We have not shied away from anything that’s influenced us in our growing up periods of our life. Just because we’ve made the kind of music we’ve made doesn’t mean to say we don’t like all of this other stuff.”
He continued: “We made this record as an artistic statement that we’d be happy to play in 10 or 15 years in time and go, ‘You know what? That is a great record. That was a great period in our career.’
