Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott has expressed frustration with these writers who label his band hair steel.
“I’ve given individuals loads of alternatives to see past that [label],” the frontman defined throughout a dialog with Rolling Stone. “And I don’t have an issue with bands being that if that’s what they wish to be. I’ve an issue with individuals that may’t see past the truth that though the Sundown Strip was alight in 1985, 1986, 1987, we have been in fuckin’ Windmill Lane [Recording Studios] and Holland making Hysteria. We have been to date faraway from all that stuff. I’m not saying we don’t fuckin’ have hair, however fuckin’ Paul Weller’s received hair! So does Robert Plant, a lot of hair! It doesn’t make them hair steel or hair pop. To me, it’s lazy journalism. It’s simply lazy.”
A part of the rationale Def Leppard has been lumped in with hair steel acts is timing. The band’s third album, the massively profitable Pyromania, got here out in 1983, the identical 12 months that Motley Crue’s Shout on the Satan and Quiet Riot’s Steel Well being arrived (amongst others).
“We by no means needed to be part of any motion, whether or not it was the New Wave of British Heavy Steel or hair steel,” Elliott revealed. “Our idea was all the time if a motion dies, all the things in it dies. Now we have to face alone. There was the Beatles and the Merseybeat [scene]. These have been two various things. That’s how we try to stand.”
Regardless of his dislike for the time period, Elliott insisted he doesn’t get bent off form over being known as hair steel.
“It’s not like I get indignant about it. I simply go, ‘Come on, actually? There’s extra to us than that,’” the rocker declared. “If individuals haven’t figured that out but, they’ve been residing underneath a rock. I can’t make excuses for them.”
This summer time, Def Leppard will hit the highway for the extremely anticipated Stadium Tour. Two different acts on the invoice — Motley Crue and Poison — are amongst hair steel’s most well-known acts. Nonetheless, Elliott insisted his band is completely different,
“On this tour, we’re the one British act. That once more separates us,” he defined. “We’re pleased with who we’re. We simply aren’t hair steel.”
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