Ils sortent un album de reprises (années 60 & 70) en mai :
01. "10538 Overture" - originally recorded by ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA in 1972
02. "20th Century Boy" - originally recorded by T.REX in 1973
03. "Don't Believe A Word" - originally recorded by THIN LIZZY in 1976
04. "Drive-In Saturday" - originally recorded by DAVID BOWIE in 1973
05. "Hanging On The Telephone" - originally recorded by THE NERVES in 1977, and BLONDIE in 1978
06. "He's Gonna Step On You Again" - originally recorded by JOHN KONGOS in 1971
07. "Hell Raiser" - originally recorded by SWEET in 1973
08. "Little Bit Of Love" - originally recorded by FREE in 1972
09. "No Matter What" - originally recorded by BADFINGER in 1970
10. "Rock On" - originally recorded by DAVID ESSEX in 1973
11. "Stay With Me" - originally recorded by FACES in 1971
12. "Street Life" - originally recorded by ROXY MUSIC in 1973
13. "The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll" - originally recorded by MOTT THE HOOPLE in 1974
14. "Waterloo Sunset" - originally recorded by THE KINKS in 1967
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
A few hours before he went on stage in the debut concert of his band's current United States tour, DEF LEPPARD lead singer Joe Elliott emphatically gave the No. 1 reason why the group released their latest album of 14 cover songs, entitled "Yeah!", and took it on the road.
"We want people to realize that we're not a heavy metal band!" Elliott said in an exclusive backstage interview with DefLeppard.com. "We're a pop band. We're a rock band!"
Friday night's (June 23) energetic first American gig took that simple sentiment to heart in front of a sellout crowd of more than 20,000 at the Tweeter Center.
Before the show, members of DEF LEPPARD socialized with members of co-headliner JOURNEY and rehearsed unplugged songs that might appear on future setlists.
Once JOURNEY's portion of the show had ended, it wasn't long before DEF LEPPARD hit the stage and played a loud, clean and vigorous 15-song set that contained a good portion of the hit singles that have powered their string of smash albums.
GANDALF
"Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost
It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over"
les ricains ont eu la chance d'avoir avec l'album un EP contenant les covers suivantes:
American Girl (Tom Petty)
Search and destroy (Iggy & stooges avec COLLEN au chant)
Space Oddity (Bowie)
Dear Friends (Queen, avec RICK SAVAGE au chant)
Heartbeat (Jobriath)
Ils rééditent également Hysteria en octobre, avec plein de bonus :
Disc One:
"Hysteria" remastered:
01. Women
02. Rocket
03. Animal
04. Love Bites
05. Pour Some Sugar On Me
06. Armageddon It
07. Gods Of War
08. Don't Shoot Shotgun
09. Run Riot
10. Hysteria
11. Excitable
12. Love And Affection
"Hysteria" B-Sides:
13. Tear It Down
14. Ride Into The Sun (1987 Re-Recording)
15. I Wanna Be Your Hero
16. Ring Of Fire
Disc Two:
"Hysteria" Live B-Sides:
01. Elected (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
02. Love And Affection (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
03. Billy's Got A Gun (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
04. Rock Af Ages (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
05. Women (Live In Denver)
"Hysteria" Remixes:
06. Animal (Extended Version)
07. Pour Some Sugar On Me (Extended Version)
08. Armageddon It (The Nuclear Mix)
09. Excitable (Orgasmic Mix)
10. Rocket (The Lunar Mix)
"Hysteria" B-Sides Continued:
11. Release Me (performed by STUMPUS MAXIMUS & THE GOOD OL' BOYS)
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
je sens que je vais me le choper rien que pour ces chansons: (si je le trouve pas cher...)
Disc One:
14. Ride Into The Sun (1987 Re-Recording)
Disc Two:
"Hysteria" Live B-Sides:
01. Elected (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
02. Love And Affection (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
03. Billy's Got A Gun (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
04. Rock Af Ages (Live In Tilburg, Holland)
05. Women (Live In Denver)
DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message on the group's official web site:
"Let's talk a little about the next album. We've been writing while on tour, really. At most shows, we did have this room set up backstage that we called the 'Sparkle Lounge,' where we were trying new ideas out, record little bits. We [were] gonna try and go into the studio in the first week of January. Our initial plan was to get it finished in May, which would make a possible August release and then do some European shows, followed by other places, but I'm not sure anymore if we'll able to do that anymore!
"As for the musical direction..... It will probably not be too far away from where we've always been, but looking at where everybody's head is right now, it's definitely gonna be an album like 'Yeah!'. You know, up-tempo, three-minute songs. Not as experimental as, say, 'X' was. Which was a bit of hip-hop here, a bit of straight up rock 'n roll there..... Sav's got a great song that sounds a lot like Gary Glitter meets U2 meets LEPPARD, and I've got this song which sounds like AC/DC during their 'Let There Be Rock' period. You know, daaaaw-deh-deddle-deddle-dee-daaaaaw, that kind of thing, with the vocals like this [hums vocal line], almost like 'Rock And Roll' by LED ZEPPELIN.....meets AC/DC! Full-on rock.
"And then Phil's got this song, and Vivian want to sit down with me to finish this other song..... You know, we've got a lot of ideas. Some of them are even 10 or 15 years old, but weren't used earlier because only now we feel we can use them.
"To record an album in 4 or 5 months, which we are set to do, is not hard. AC/DC's 'Back In Black' was done in 5 months. 'Led Zeppelin II' took two days to record! See, nobody is ever gonna sell 15 million records again, so what's the point in trying to. All we want to do is to make sure there's at least 3 or 4 songs on the album that are absolutely top notch, and the other 6 have got to be really really good, but they don't have to be hit singles, the kind of classics that you hear on the radio. With any hit album, there's three songs that everybody knows — on 'Pyromania' for example, we had 'Foolin'', 'Photograph' and 'Rock Of Ages'. The pop-buying audience doesn't know any of the other songs on the album, because they're not played on the radio. Our FANS know them, of course, but the average radio listener doesn't.
"So, that's the plan, but as always.....things might, and most likely, WILL change! We're only at the beginning, so anything can happen.....!"
GANDALF
"Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost
It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over"
