DEF LEPPARD Bassist Rick Savage Sells Sheffield House For "Less Than He Wanted"
January 3, 2007, 17 years ago
SheffieldToday.co.uk (www.sheffieldtoday.net) reports:
"DEF LEPPARD's Rick Savage finally sold Holmwood House in Ecclesall at long last to local businessman Matt Davison for a reported £1.6 million, a lot less than he wanted."Billboard's Jonathan Cohen recently reported that Def Leppard would begin recording it's next studio album this month at frontman Joe Elliott's house in Dublin, Ireland.
"We've got about five or six songs on the go, and there'll be 11 or 12 on the final version," guitarist Phil Collen told Billboard.com. "We're trying to get it out for next summer, which for us would be amazing. But we've never been this far along. We come off tour, wait six months, then we start writing. We've already got that sorted out."Collen says the songs thus far have "absolutely" been influenced by the process of making Yeah!, which featured Def Leppard's spin on songs popularized by THIN LIZZY, THE FACES and MOTT THE HOOPLE. "We did that so quick," he says. "It was raw, and it didn't demand we sit around for months or years. That really inspired us."
"A lot of the songs are anthemic sounding," Elliott adds. "I wouldn't say they could have been on Pyromania or Hysteria but they're in the vein. Sonically, it's a little more like Back In Black than, say, Hysteria. It's more driving. The songs we've got so far are leaning that way."Says Collen, "It's a rawer kind of vibe - more menacing. More of a live sound. Not too glossy."
