Def Leppard’s Phil Collen chatted with Grammy’s, saying how Leppard took one crucial lesson from The Rolling Stones book and the reason they’re following them when it comes to live shows.
Phil said:
“We just follow the Stones’ lead on that. Every time they go out, they carefully place a new song. They know they’ve got to do ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ and ‘Satisfaction’ and all that stuff. We just do that, we integrate it in there.
”You’ve just got to be careful. It’s great doing [it as a] first song because you can use the theatrics of ‘Here we are.’ There’s a lull at a certain point, and you inject something like that. We’re very careful about where and when we put them in the set.”