Def Leppard's Joe Elliott on Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and Eighties Pride
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Rolling Stone caught up with Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, while he was on a break from touring. Elliott discussed the band’s upcoming, self-titled, album. "All the time we were working on the songs, we would be having these neighborly types of conversations with friends and colleagues, and everyone would ask, 'What does it sound like?'" Elliott says. "And we found ourselves answering, 'Well, it sounds like Def Leppard!' I think after that kept happening over and over, it was Phil [Collen] who finally said, 'Why don't we just call the thing Def Leppard?' We were umm-ing and ahh-ing about titles, none of which I remember anymore, and so we just went, 'Fine.' Thirty-five years as a recording band and we've never had a self-titled album. Maybe now's the time.'"
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