DEF LEPPARD ROCK OF AGES MOVIE
DEF LEPPARD ROCK OF AGES FULL

I will just say one thing, though вЂ“ if I have to choose one album to be buried with, itвЂ™s going to be вЂњPyromaniaвЂќ (together with вЂњHysteriaвЂќ most probably). Rise up, gather round and r ock this place to the ground!рџ”ҐДef LeppardвЂ™s вЂњPyromaniaвЂќ вЂ“ do I have to say more? ItвЂ™s one of those groundbreaking hard rock albums which donвЂ™t really need an introduction or a bunch of fancy words, describing how awesome and influential it is. 'It was like god, this is amazing.' We think you'll enjoy these related videos below and for more great content featuring your favorite artists, sign up for Fuse+ to access all our videos.рџ”ҐTime toвЂ¦. 'I was thinking, Christ, 10 years ago I was in school buying Sheer Heart Attack, and now he's up on stage playing one of our riffs,' Elliott fondly recalls. Also in the clip at the bottom: Elliott talks about his fan moment in 1983 when he caught Queen's guitarist riffing on 'Photograph' while warming up. And to hear the rockers' crazy tour stories-including the tale of a Polish witch with a white rat in her hand casting a hex on the band-check out the video below.

DEF LEPPARD ROCK OF AGES FULL

Will you rethink your decision? So we discussed it and said, 'Alright, go on then.''ДЇor Leppard's full take on the Rock of Ages film, watch the video above.

DEF LEPPARD ROCK OF AGES MOVIE

'So cut to last year: They approached us again saying, 'We're turning this into a movie now, and oh, by the way, we're looking at Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Paul Giamatti, etc.

'It got to the point where David Coverdale did a narration at the beginning of the play and they mention, 'A big-boo hiss to Def Leppard for not giving us their songs.' Which is very comical, vaudeville, almost English humor, which we actually thought was very funny. We said, 'Oh no! Don't think so.' But lo and behold, this particular stage play went through the roof,' Elliott says.

'About eight years ago the producers came to us and said, 'We want to use some of your songs' and they gave us the premise of what was all about. Elliott explains why they eventually caved. Those only familiar with the film version of Rock of Ages might be surprised to learn that Def Leppard resisted giving their songs to the musical for years. He had that lizard snake walk thing going on, which is not my cup of tea.' 'He'd obviously been studying videos from, I'd say, Axl and Iggy. He'd be like, 'Am I doing it right? Are you okay with this?' And I'm like, 'Dude, more than okay.' This is the guy from Mission: Impossible!'ДЄlthough Elliott says Cruise nailed the vocals, he doesn't think the megastar looked to Def Leppard for stage presence inspiration. Between takes he would jump down and we would interact and talk. We were in the pit for an hour or 90 minutes watching him do it maybe six, seven times. 'Obviously being a film, they shoot multiple takes from different angles. 'We walk in and Tom Cruise is tatted up with long hair-in character-and he starts singing 'Pour Some Sugar On Me.' The coincidence was beyond belief,' Joe Elliott tells us. Fuse recently sat down with hard rock legends Def Leppard to talk about their experience with the movie adaptation of the Broadway smash Rock of Ages, an in-theaters-now flick that prominently features Tom Cruise singing 'Pour Some Sugar On Me.' According to the Sheffield, England rockers, they just happened to drop by the movie set at the exact time Cruise was performing their 1987 hit for the film.

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