DEF LEPPARD will release its new album, “Diamond Star Halos”, on May 27 via UMe.
In a new interview with Billboard, Joe Elliot & Phil Collen shared more details on how the album was created.
Here’s what Joe said:
“It was joyful to do.”
“As Sav says, at any one time there were possibly four songs getting worked on at once. And everybody was at home, so you didn’t have to work on it constantly or be sitting around waiting to do your bit if we were all in the studio together or something. You could get on with doing other stuff. So it was a leisurely way of recording, but we could concentrate wholly on the record when we were actually recording. What we learned was it’s not where your body is, it’s where your mind’s at. We were in three different countries, but we were all on the same page.”
Phil Collen added:
“I think it’s the best thing we’ve ever done. There was so much more energy by not having to go to a studio or a situation where you were waiting on anything. I’d finish something, send it to Joe in Ireland and he’d send it to Sav and…we’d just be back and forth, and when I’d wake up in the morning there’d be something new in my mailbox. It was constantly exciting. I don’t think we don’t want to go back to whatever that standard way was that we did before.”
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I’m looking forward to it. I hope it will be good. Their last album was pretty solid. Will it be the best thing they’ve ever done? Will it crush “Hysteria” or “Pyromania?” No.