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"When he introduced me so beautifully, and the roar of the crowd was so loud, I burst into tears": the story behind Rick Allen's triumphant comeback
On August 16 1986, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen made his first live appearance since losing his arm in a car crash. This is what happened that day, in his own words
Def Leppard's Joe Elliott: The 10 Records That Changed My Life
Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott travels back to the 1970s to pick the 10 records that shaped his taste and changed his life
"For some bizarre reason, women seem to feel compelled to take their shirts off when we play it..." How Florida's strippers made Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me a hit and saved the band's career
In 1988, sales of Hysteria had stalled, and the record company were desperate to recoup the album's enormous costs. The story of the "stripping song" that came to the rescue...
Before she became one of the planet’s biggest pop stars, Taylor Swift collaborated with Def Leppard: “She heard our music in her mother’s womb”
Remembering the time a pre-megastardom Taylor Swift ended up playing a gig with Def Leppard
Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale
Grunge swept all aside as it barrelled in from Seattle, and some bands preferred to jump the bandwagon rather than stand in the way and get mown down
Phil Collen talks about Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith's audition for Def Leppard: "Adrian's great"
Def Leppard's Phil Collen reveals that five guitarists were invited to try out for the band following Steve Clarke's death
Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Australian dates to Stadium Tour
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard's much-hyped Stadium Tour continues to plot its inexorable path around Planet Earth
Rick Allen has spoken publicly for the first time about being attacked in Florida
The Def Leppard drummer has opened up about the violent attack outside a hotel in Fort Lauderdale: "I wasn’t a threat because I’ve only got one arm"
