Cover Version: The Sweet's Action, Mick Ronson's Only After Dark on Retroactive.Cover Album: Yeah! is a cover album made up almost entirely of songs from the 1970s, including "Drive-in Saturday" by David Bowie, "20th Century Boy" by T.Rex, and "Stay With Me" by the Faces.Joe Elliott's main side project is the Down N' Outz, a Mott the Hoople cover band.Some of the members are also in a David Bowie Cover BAND !.Cool Old Guy: The band is still going strong over 40 years into their career and are still packing arenas as of 2020, with Phil Collen standing out among the individual members due to being highly athletic in his 60s with his bodybuilding physique.Classical Music Is Boring: The band lampshades this in "Let's Get Rocked." The narrator balks at his girlfriend's musical choices, which include the likes of "Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven," which makes him "wanna scream.".Despite losing his left arm in a car accident, the band developed a special drumkit for him. Career-Ending Injury: Subverted by Rick Allen.Big Guy, Little Guy: Tall, rail-thin Steve Clark and short, muscular Phil Collen, ironically both of them having traits of both.Bawdy Song: "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Let's Get Rocked", "Rock Rock (Til You Drop)", "Women", "Make Love Like a Man", and that doesn't count album tracks.Baldness Means Sickness: Vivian Campbell, had cancer (as of June 2013) and went bald due to chemo.Audience Participation Song: Several, with "Pour Some Sugar On Me" as the definitive example.As Long as It Sounds Foreign: No, that page quote doesn't translate to anything.
Apocalypse How: "When the Walls Come Tumbling Down" describes a Class 2 at best, Class 3 at worst.Strangely, "On Through the Night" off of their second album shares the title of their first album. Album Title Drop: Pyromania gets its title from a line in the song "Rock Of Ages".He sought refuge in alcohol, and when his bandmates went sober he drank himself to death, unable to escape his depression. Tragically, this was (infamously) the case for Steve Clark.Rick gave up alcohol after a domestic incident with his then-wife that got violent. Phil gave up alcohol after getting black out drunk and waking up with an expensive watch he didn't remember buying, which spooked him. To whit Joe gave up alcohol to preserve his voice on tour.The Alcoholic: Being a rock band in the 1980's, all members would definitely qualify, though most of them have gone sober since then."Rise up, gather round, burn these tropes to the ground!" However he's since turned his life around and has said that the firing probably saved his life by making him face his problem. Pete Willis, who unfortunately let alcohol get the better of him and was fired.The band later experienced something of a career resurgence with well received collaborations with Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift introducing them to a new audience. After kicking out a founding guitarist for too much drunken tomfoolery (Pete Willis), they released a well-received rock album ( Pyromania), lost another sixth of a member (Rick Allen's left arm), released a phenomenally successful pop-rock record ( Hysteria), which was essentially aiming to be "the hard rock version of Thriller", then the other original guitarist drank himself to death over the course of a few years (Steve Clark).īest known for predicating a thirty-year career on the bawdy Chorus-Only Song, "Pour Some Sugar on Me" or their anthem "Rock of Ages" (which famously begins with the utterance of the page quote), they continue to release records (much more often than in their heyday) and do a world tour almost every year since 2003. Originally formed in 1977 in Sheffield, England by five teenagers who really liked glam rock, Def Leppard became grouped with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) before turning early-MTV pop-rock sweethearts.
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