DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliott, Phil Collen - New Video Interview Online; Band Urged To Pull Out Of Rodeo Gig By Animal Right Group
July 3, 2007, 17 years ago
DEP LEPPARD's Satellite Of Love site reports:
"Milwaukee reporter Melissa McCrady goes backstage at the Def Leppard concert at the Summerfest to interview Joe Elliott and Phil Collen in a TV report for WTMJ-TV Channel 4 in Milwaukee, WI."Def Leppard says they love performing in Milwaukee. All the years they've been on tour, they have always made a stop in our city. They're even talking about returning to Summerfest for its 41st anniversary."
Click here to watch the video.
Another message at the site, courtesy of www.idausa.org, reads, "Animal rights group, IDA (In Defense of Animals) is urging Def Leppard to pull out of their July 28th show at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming due to Frontier Days' injuring and killing of animals during competitions.
"Collen, the band's lead guitarist, went vegetarian in 1983 out of empathy for animals and the horror they suffer on factory farms, eventually inspiring some of his band mates - and many fans - to go veg. Despite this, Def Leppard has still signed onto the lineup at Cheyenne Frontier Days, which has a particularly long and bloody history of injuring and killing animals in the course of competitions."
