July 28, 2025 • 11 mins
Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Rick Savage, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen, Phil Collen, and Vivian Campbell. They established themselves as part of the new wave of British heavy metal of the early 1980s.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, Brad Gilmour here, want to give a big
shout out to our title sponsor, Walker Texas Lawyer.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Oh Broadcasting live from Houston, Texas and around the world
and are around the world.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
TV host, best selling author and radio personality, Brad Gilmour
brings you a collection of conversations with stars from movies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Matthew McConaughey, Brad Gilmore, Mark wohlburg By, how are you
the legendary mister Christopher Lloyd Christopher, how are we doing?
I'm doing good? Says Jessica Alba and Lizzie Matthis ladies,
thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. Kevin
Coster joins us, Thank you so much, Thank you Television.
Jimmy Fallon joins us this morning. Jimmy, how you doing,
my friend? Good morning. Thank you so much Brad for
(01:01):
having me. I appreciate this. Bud Kelly Ripper, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jay Leno joins us, Jay, how you doing, hey, Brad?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Chris Tucker is as the Bill and Chris Tucker, good
morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hey you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
George Lopez joins us right now, George, how are you doing?
So good morning music, Lola men, thank you, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The legendary front man of ac DC, Brian Johnson joins
us right now, Brian, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Good morning? Brock what look jo? Give me funny?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Megan Trainer.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Chloe Bailey joins us.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I appreciate the time, appreciate you and more and more.
This is the collection.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Now your host of the boat, and I can't believe
I have the distinct honor and privilege to interview these
next two.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Gentlemen who represent one of the most.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Iconic rock bands, really the most iconic music groups in
the history of this planet as we know it. And
they're going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the
Coliseum at Caesar's Palace February of the twenty eighth to
kick off a new Las Vegas residency.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is the one and only Joe Elliott and Phil
Colin of def Leopard. Good morning, guys, Thank you so
much for taking the time.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Pleasure morning, Honin.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Look, look, let's just start right with the residency and
being able to be in that one space for all
of those dates and people from all over the world
now come to Las Vegas. It's really become the entertainment
capital being able to do that. How exciting is it
to be in that one place and get to have
thousands of people every single night.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's great knowing that you actually kind of work it
accordingly to it, like you change the set around for
different nights because you know, you're having people from South America,
from Singapore, Japan and everything coming over there, so you
might get special and you can actually really prove on
the show when you're in the same place for god
(03:02):
knows how many war there for a month, you know,
so it's it's going to change in a really good way.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You can really kind of hone the skills of the
set and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know, Yeah, you know, and Joe, you're getting to
be already there. I remember you would you would see
some footage of Elvis when he was doing his residency
and he would have a lot of fun with the
set and like you said, change it up. Interplay with
the audience because of you know, there's a comfortability of
having those I guess repeat performances.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There you go like saying this worked really well this night,
let's do it again tomorrow, or expand on it, or
this didn't work so great, so you just change it.
You can't really do that as much on a tour,
you know. I mean you can a little bit, but
not like you can when you do a residency.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Did you you agree, Yeah, there's I think there's a
psychological thing about playing the same venue twelve times where
you get comfortable. You know, it's the only opportunity for
a band where instead of us visiting them, they come
to visit. Does you know, so we get to sleep
in the same bed for a month, and you know,
you get to go play kiss golf all day and
then go do a gig at night. You know. I mean,
(04:08):
it's Vegas. It's it's going to be a lot of fun,
not just on stage. I mean the fact that you're
in Vegas that on our days off we can go
and see. Well, there there'll be too many choices of
things to go and see. I remember the last week,
the last this is our third residency and the last
time we were there in twenty nineteen. I used to
(04:29):
go and see Love the Beatles show, you know, all
the time because it's it was just mind blowing, or
there's circus lay, or there'd be another rock band on somewhere.
So it's a great thing to be there. But from
our point of view, we get to put on a
brand new show. We've got a whole new production that's
specifically designed for this residency, and we get to change
(04:49):
the set and that's important, and I just think it's
more comfortable to do it when you're going back to
the same venue the next day or the day after
and you say, let's drop that song and let's play
this one. But if it doesn't work, you can revert
bike and there's no harm done. Really.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you get to play around with it and have
a lot of fun. And obviously people from all over
the world are always in Vegas and they might be
able to catch it death For well, this show is
going to sell out, but maybe they could catch a
deaf leopard thing at the last minute if they wanted to.
You know, the influence of y'all's band. I've been a
big fan of y'all's for a very long time, and
I just feel that when you talk about Deaf Leopard,
(05:26):
y'all broke so many boundaries. Whether you want to talk
about bringing on the Heartbreak, that was like the first
big I guess heavy ballad that I can remember seeing
on television a lot and hearing it radio play. Obviously,
Pour Some Sugar on Me has had a influence not
just on rock music, but I feel like hip hop
has a huge influence from you all. I don't know
if y'all feel that and can see that in some
(05:47):
of the contemporary hip hop musicians, but your influence is
way past just your era or your peak. It's gone
on for decades and in all genres of music. Do
y'all see and feel that.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, that was the plan, you know, we always
wanted to be a hybrid of whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Pour Some Sugar was based on some early kind of
rap me before it came hip hop. You know, it's like,
you know, run DMC, there's all this stuff like that.
It's got to the vocal media. It's very rapping or
hip help poppy, you know, whatever you want to call
it these days. But yeah, you know, you always kind
of get influenced by different things and not just rock bands,
(06:25):
and that's what we always want to do. So you
do you see it reappearing on other stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I think also in the eighties there was a lot
of bands that tried to copy what we did, which
kind of solked the market too much, which probably increased
the need for grunge. But since that's passed and our
popularity kind of returned, if you like, you see our
influence in terms of our music mostly in country actually
(06:51):
in fairness country music and in hip hop. It's not
so much in rock. So that's great because it means
that that's a that's a we can plow that particular
ourselves and there's no competition, which is great for us.
But you do you hear the spill off of that
stuff in you know, maybe Shania Twain on God Brooks,
bands like that, you know, and then in hip hop
(07:14):
as well, they're always contacting us, can we sample this?
Can we sample that? So you know that it's getting used.
It's interesting now it spreads in two totally different directions.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well. And also I feel like y'all were the first
band I ever heard the term arena rock or stadium
music used for that was the first time I can
remember hearing that, and it was in reference to, you know,
the hysteria pyromania era of that was y'all created these
stadium anthems that, like you said, from the Garth brooks
(07:45):
Is to the Travis Scotts to the Post Malones, they
all have kind of copied that aura of what y'all
were able to bring in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Absolutely, and we did set out to do that, you know,
with our producer Mutt Lang, we try and make these
these anthems that would actually work on that kind of stage,
if you like, you know, in an arena or a stadium.
We actually even talk about when we're like, yeah, does
it have that thing? And you know, obviously someone like
Post some Sugar and Meal Rock of Ages, they definitely do.
And later you know, we've got some called just like
(08:15):
seventy three. Same kind of deal works great, same kind
of vibe, really stadium rock.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah. So my final question for you all, and I
could talk to you all days, because I would love
to go through your discography and break down certain songs
and things that I've always wanted to know, but I
want to ask this. It's the relationship to the audience.
I think that for a performer, it's the most special
relationship because you can't really define it. For me, it's
like the wind. You can feel it, but you can't
see it or hold it, but you know it's there.
(08:43):
And to be able to bring that after all these years,
what is that relationship like with the audience on stage
if you can do your best to put it into words.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I think that when you've been around for a long time,
whether it be like the Stones of the Hill we've
been around in like sixty years and us I think
we're forty five, forty six years or whatever it is,
it grows and then it changes.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's a moving.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Being, the whole relationship with the band and the crowd.
You know, when we first started out it was small,
and then we had a huge success and the crowds
got bigger. And then, like most bands that have been
around for a long time, it wanes, it goes away,
It comes back and people get married and have mortgages
and they can't afford to come, and then they get,
you know, a promotion, and they do well and they
(09:28):
have kids, and then they bring their kids. They come
back in twenty years. Because we're around We're a constant
in their lives at home, maybe on CD players or
whatever they've got, you know, streaming these days. And then
they come back to the to the arena or the
stadium or whatever, and they bring their kids. And like
(09:48):
just the other day in Saratoga Springs there's like kids
on the barrier down in the front, like ten years
old with their parents. And I saw this a Stones
gig years ago. I saw like a granddad a son
and at a grandson, you know, eleven thirty five, six
day or whatever, all singing satisfaction. I'm thinking, I hope
that oppist is one day. And it has been happening
(10:09):
for ten, twelve, fifteen years now. It's great failing really is.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It will continue? You know again, I really y'all are
icons in my eyes, and your influence is going to
be felt for generations to come. And I just really
appreciate the time this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Pleasure. Thank you,
Hey guys, Brad Gilmour here, want to give a big
shout out to our title sponsor, Walker Texas Lawyer.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
If you are a love would.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Have been injured in an accident, whether that be a car, truck,
motorcycle accident, or some kind of other issue. Hit up
Walker Texas Lawyer at seven one three five five to
two one one one seven or Walker Texas Lawyer dot com.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Oh Broadcasting live from Houston, Texas and around the world
and are around the world.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
TV host, best selling author and radio personality, Brad Gilmour
brings you a collection of conversations with stars from movies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Matthew McConaughey, Brad Gilmore, Mark wohlburg By, how are you
the legendary mister Christopher Lloyd Christopher, how are we doing?
I'm doing good? Says Jessica Alba and Lizzie Matthis ladies,
thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. Kevin
Coster joins us, Thank you so much, Thank you Television.
Jimmy Fallon joins us this morning. Jimmy, how you doing,
my friend? Good morning. Thank you so much Brad for
(01:01):
having me. I appreciate this. Bud Kelly Ripper, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Comedy.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Jay Leno joins us, Jay, how you doing, hey, Brad?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Chris Tucker is as the Bill and Chris Tucker, good
morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Hey you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
George Lopez joins us right now, George, how are you doing?
So good morning music, Lola men, thank you, thank you
for having me.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
The legendary front man of ac DC, Brian Johnson joins
us right now, Brian, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Good morning? Brock what look jo? Give me funny?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Megan Trainer.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Chloe Bailey joins us.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I appreciate the time, appreciate you and more and more.
This is the collection.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Now your host of the boat, and I can't believe
I have the distinct honor and privilege to interview these
next two.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Gentlemen who represent one of the most.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Iconic rock bands, really the most iconic music groups in
the history of this planet as we know it. And
they're going to be in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the
Coliseum at Caesar's Palace February of the twenty eighth to
kick off a new Las Vegas residency.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is the one and only Joe Elliott and Phil
Colin of def Leopard. Good morning, guys, Thank you so
much for taking the time.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Pleasure morning, Honin.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Look, look, let's just start right with the residency and
being able to be in that one space for all
of those dates and people from all over the world
now come to Las Vegas. It's really become the entertainment
capital being able to do that. How exciting is it
to be in that one place and get to have
thousands of people every single night.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's great knowing that you actually kind of work it
accordingly to it, like you change the set around for
different nights because you know, you're having people from South America,
from Singapore, Japan and everything coming over there, so you
might get special and you can actually really prove on
the show when you're in the same place for god
(03:02):
knows how many war there for a month, you know,
so it's it's going to change in a really good way.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You can really kind of hone the skills of the
set and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know, Yeah, you know, and Joe, you're getting to
be already there. I remember you would you would see
some footage of Elvis when he was doing his residency
and he would have a lot of fun with the
set and like you said, change it up. Interplay with
the audience because of you know, there's a comfortability of
having those I guess repeat performances.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
There you go like saying this worked really well this night,
let's do it again tomorrow, or expand on it, or
this didn't work so great, so you just change it.
You can't really do that as much on a tour,
you know. I mean you can a little bit, but
not like you can when you do a residency.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Did you you agree, Yeah, there's I think there's a
psychological thing about playing the same venue twelve times where
you get comfortable. You know, it's the only opportunity for
a band where instead of us visiting them, they come
to visit. Does you know, so we get to sleep
in the same bed for a month, and you know,
you get to go play kiss golf all day and
then go do a gig at night. You know. I mean,
(04:08):
it's Vegas. It's it's going to be a lot of fun,
not just on stage. I mean the fact that you're
in Vegas that on our days off we can go
and see. Well, there there'll be too many choices of
things to go and see. I remember the last week,
the last this is our third residency and the last
time we were there in twenty nineteen. I used to
(04:29):
go and see Love the Beatles show, you know, all
the time because it's it was just mind blowing, or
there's circus lay, or there'd be another rock band on somewhere.
So it's a great thing to be there. But from
our point of view, we get to put on a
brand new show. We've got a whole new production that's
specifically designed for this residency, and we get to change
(04:49):
the set and that's important, and I just think it's
more comfortable to do it when you're going back to
the same venue the next day or the day after
and you say, let's drop that song and let's play
this one. But if it doesn't work, you can revert
bike and there's no harm done. Really.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you get to play around with it and have
a lot of fun. And obviously people from all over
the world are always in Vegas and they might be
able to catch it death For well, this show is
going to sell out, but maybe they could catch a
deaf leopard thing at the last minute if they wanted to.
You know, the influence of y'all's band. I've been a
big fan of y'all's for a very long time, and
I just feel that when you talk about Deaf Leopard,
(05:26):
y'all broke so many boundaries. Whether you want to talk
about bringing on the Heartbreak, that was like the first
big I guess heavy ballad that I can remember seeing
on television a lot and hearing it radio play. Obviously,
Pour Some Sugar on Me has had a influence not
just on rock music, but I feel like hip hop
has a huge influence from you all. I don't know
if y'all feel that and can see that in some
(05:47):
of the contemporary hip hop musicians, but your influence is
way past just your era or your peak. It's gone
on for decades and in all genres of music. Do
y'all see and feel that.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, that was the plan, you know, we always
wanted to be a hybrid of whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Pour Some Sugar was based on some early kind of
rap me before it came hip hop. You know, it's like,
you know, run DMC, there's all this stuff like that.
It's got to the vocal media. It's very rapping or
hip help poppy, you know, whatever you want to call
it these days. But yeah, you know, you always kind
of get influenced by different things and not just rock bands,
(06:25):
and that's what we always want to do. So you
do you see it reappearing on other stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
I think also in the eighties there was a lot
of bands that tried to copy what we did, which
kind of solked the market too much, which probably increased
the need for grunge. But since that's passed and our
popularity kind of returned, if you like, you see our
influence in terms of our music mostly in country actually
(06:51):
in fairness country music and in hip hop. It's not
so much in rock. So that's great because it means
that that's a that's a we can plow that particular
ourselves and there's no competition, which is great for us.
But you do you hear the spill off of that
stuff in you know, maybe Shania Twain on God Brooks,
bands like that, you know, and then in hip hop
(07:14):
as well, they're always contacting us, can we sample this?
Can we sample that? So you know that it's getting used.
It's interesting now it spreads in two totally different directions.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well. And also I feel like y'all were the first
band I ever heard the term arena rock or stadium
music used for that was the first time I can
remember hearing that, and it was in reference to, you know,
the hysteria pyromania era of that was y'all created these
stadium anthems that, like you said, from the Garth brooks
(07:45):
Is to the Travis Scotts to the Post Malones, they
all have kind of copied that aura of what y'all
were able to bring in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Absolutely, and we did set out to do that, you know,
with our producer Mutt Lang, we try and make these
these anthems that would actually work on that kind of stage,
if you like, you know, in an arena or a stadium.
We actually even talk about when we're like, yeah, does
it have that thing? And you know, obviously someone like
Post some Sugar and Meal Rock of Ages, they definitely do.
And later you know, we've got some called just like
(08:15):
seventy three. Same kind of deal works great, same kind
of vibe, really stadium rock.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah. So my final question for you all, and I
could talk to you all days, because I would love
to go through your discography and break down certain songs
and things that I've always wanted to know, but I
want to ask this. It's the relationship to the audience.
I think that for a performer, it's the most special
relationship because you can't really define it. For me, it's
like the wind. You can feel it, but you can't
see it or hold it, but you know it's there.
(08:43):
And to be able to bring that after all these years,
what is that relationship like with the audience on stage
if you can do your best to put it into words.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I think that when you've been around for a long time,
whether it be like the Stones of the Hill we've
been around in like sixty years and us I think
we're forty five, forty six years or whatever it is,
it grows and then it changes.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
It's a moving.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Being, the whole relationship with the band and the crowd.
You know, when we first started out it was small,
and then we had a huge success and the crowds
got bigger. And then, like most bands that have been
around for a long time, it wanes, it goes away,
It comes back and people get married and have mortgages
and they can't afford to come, and then they get,
you know, a promotion, and they do well and they
(09:28):
have kids, and then they bring their kids. They come
back in twenty years. Because we're around We're a constant
in their lives at home, maybe on CD players or
whatever they've got, you know, streaming these days. And then
they come back to the to the arena or the
stadium or whatever, and they bring their kids. And like
(09:48):
just the other day in Saratoga Springs there's like kids
on the barrier down in the front, like ten years
old with their parents. And I saw this a Stones
gig years ago. I saw like a granddad a son
and at a grandson, you know, eleven thirty five, six
day or whatever, all singing satisfaction. I'm thinking, I hope
that oppist is one day. And it has been happening
(10:09):
for ten, twelve, fifteen years now. It's great failing really is.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It will continue? You know again, I really y'all are
icons in my eyes, and your influence is going to
be felt for generations to come. And I just really
appreciate the time this morning.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Pleasure. Thank you,
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