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(Excerpted from the 2006 book Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton’s Little John?: Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed, published by Three Rivers Press, written by Gavin Edwards. Why Def Leppard Finally Said Yes to the ‘Rock of Ages’ Musical The jukebox show never had the rights to use the band’s songs, even though it’s named after one. The song was recorded by Joe as a demo in 1985, included as a bonus track on the Japanese release of Adrenalize in 1992, and used as the B-side of 'Heaven Is' in 1993. Def Leppards next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with 'Photograph' and 'Rock of Ages' both topping the US Rock Tracks chart and reaching the top 20 of the Hot 100. (The Offspring agreed in 1998, borrowing it for the intro of “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy).”) “We were actually accosted by a German once who said it meant ‘running through the forest, silently’,” Elliott reported. “We thought it was so funny, we lifted it from the middle of the song,” Elliott said. So on a skeletal version of the “Rock of Ages” track, when Lange was counting off mid-song to indicate where guitar fills should come in, he started off with the tradional “1, 2, 3, 4,” progressed to rhythmically listing Indian foods such as papadum, and ended up making up his own quasi-Teutonic language.
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Only one video featured on the compilation, 'Bringin On the Heartbreak', was not released after PYROMANIA. The band was going stir crazy in the studio and badly needed some comic relief (not realizing that future albums with Lange would take years instead of months). Description ROCK OF AGES: THE DVD COLLECTION is a one-disc DVD collection that contains a total of 19 commercial single videos that helped jump the band to success after the release of their breakthrough 1983 album, Pyromania. It was also released as the second single from that album. The drivel in question–which Elliott spells “Gunter gleben glousen globen”–was uttered by the producer of their Pyromania record, Mutt Lange (later to be Shania Twain’s husband). Rock of Ages is a song by Def Leppard and is the seventh track on their 1983 album Pyromania. “We had such a good time going out with Poison in 2009 that we thought it only right to do it again!” singer Joe Elliott said when the band announced the package.Įlliott recently performed with the Rock & Roll All Stars on an abbreviated tour of South America.“It’s meaningless drivel, basically,” Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott told me, after we discussed the effectiveness of cabbage-soup diets.
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With ordinary names like Joe Elliott, Rick Allen and Steve Clark, Def Leppard proved to be no ordinary. The summer trek, which also features Poison and Lita Ford, fires up June 20 in Salt Lake City. Def Leppard: Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection. Def Leppard have released a promo for their “Rock Of Ages” tour. This extensive collection gathers 19 of Def Leppards music videos together on the appropriately titled ROCK OF AGES.