DEF LEPPARD Guitarist Phil Collen On Pyromania Years - "Everyone Liked The Fact That This Young Rock Band, Instead Of Looking Like BLACK SABBATH, We Looked More Like DURAN DURAN"
May 4, 2009, 15 years ago
David J. Prince from Billboard.com is reporting:
DEF LEPPARD, the pop metal band that debuted in 1980 and which has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide, is set to release deluxe editions of two of its classic records - 1983's Pyromania and 1992's Adrenalize - on June 23. Both double-disc sets will come on Bludgeon Riffola/Island/UMe and feature previously unreleased material including b-sides, demo versions and live recordings.
"Adrenalize was Number One the week of the L.A. riots," Leppard guitarist Phil Collen remembers in an exclusive interview with Billboard.com. "I know it was the nineties, but it really was the end of the eighties. You had this whole new genre - NIRVANA and the grunge thing - which I loved when it really shook everything up. But we got lumped into the eighties hair metal bands."When Pyromania came out it was the complete opposite," Collen says. "MTV embraced it. Everyone else embraced it. They liked the fact that this young rock band, instead of looking like BLACK SABBATH, we looked more like DURAN DURAN. It really, really crossed over."
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