![]() Why is it that British bands so often fall into the trap of figuring the only way to crack the American market is to sing about the nation itself? I think the ‘Dumb American’ idea has been greatly overstressed. In as blunt terms as I can possibly describe. ‘Hello America’ is of course what I’m talking about – it somewhat infamously alienated them to the British music press, and though this in itself is something I wholehearted endorse (has anyone actually read Kerrang! magazine lately, sheesh!) I can’t say the same for the song. Interestingly – or is that amusingly? – it’s clear that though born and raised in the same rock ’n’ roll sl um as those around them in the NWOBHM movement, Def Leppard had their eyes very much set on pop stardom even in their earliest days. It’s NWOBHM, yet not heavy metal if that makes any sense. ![]() Therefore we’d be best to compare this more to Demon than to Iron Maiden or Saxon… but that in itself would be a little silly (did I mention that Deaf Leopard are a massive anomaly in the "NWOBHM" movement?) So in all actuality – and probably much to Joe Elliot’s delight – this is very difficult to judge as a metal record, as it really isn’t. Then of course, they realised the fastest way out of Sheffield was via pop music and they actually were successful with that for a time being.ĭeaf Leopard was technically one of the big bands to emerge from the "NWOBHM" movement – but the actual "NWOBHM" pedigree of this album is somewhat doubtful : metallic qualities aren’t really pronounced much outside of ‘Wasted’. By the time they’d actually realised how to write more than two good songs per record they’d all but ditched anything that could be considered "NWOBHM" for the frankly excellent AC/DC-derived hard rock of High N Dry. But seriously, this is very much a curiosity in Metal music history – I suppose it’s still strictly a hard rock album, but Deaf Leopard never were all too certain about their own actual "metalness" and I’m not too sure myself. There is no release date for when the album will be released.Straight off the cricket bat : the band disowns/dislikes this album so by that virtue alone it’s one of their worst albums. And Pete and Steve were 17 and 18 years old. And the two-arm Rick Allen with was some rhythm section to come, considering he was 16 years old and Sav was 17, I think, maybe 18. But I tell you this much: The band, as I said in the liner notes, when you peer through the curtain of uncertainty that my voice was back in those days, there is a fantastic band onstage. You know what I mean? So, it is what it is. "You can't expect a 59-year old me to go in and clean up a 20-year old vocal. It's us live in 1980," Elliott explained. which has never been heard ever."ĭef Leppard played Oxford on April 26 of that year, running through the entirety of the band's debut album, as well as a pair of songs-"Let it Go" and "Lady Strange"-that would appear on 1981 sophomore full-length, High 'n' Dry. But I will say this much: There's a companion piece to On Through the Night, there's a brand-new, just-mixed live performance from the Oxford Theatre in 1980. "I don't know how much of this I can say right now. "We thought about this about a year and a half ago, and there's going to be a celebratory release," Elliott told Eddie Trunk during a recent SiriusXM interview. The band's lead singer, Joe Elliott, has revealed that Def Leppard is planning to release a live album recorded in 1980, when the still-fledgling group was supporting their debut album. Def Leppard is taking it all the way back.
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