It makes no difference to me whether it’s a Ramones song or a Taylor Swift. It’s a one off project and you’ve got to sell yourself in the right light. And the fact that I was actually singing from the male point of view in some of her stuff, like in “Love Story.”Īs you say, I’m not going to sing something and half-ass it. 991K views, 17K likes, 4K loves, 2.3K comments, 2. There were a couple of moments where we sat down, me and Taylor sat down, and she says, “I can’t sing that line,” ’cause it was a bit too risqué, in So we’d swap things around. We turned up knowing all the chords, knowing all the lyrics. Its been ten years since Def Leppard and Taylor Swift delivered an unlikely joint performance for CMTs Crossroads. Def Leppards recent crossover collaborations with country musicians Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift have been big hits, and as a result, the rockers have been. He said: Well, she was already pretty big, so the conquer the world was something that was either gonna happen or wasn’t. It was two shows and everybody did their homework. During the recent interview with Rolling Stone, Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott has revealed the story behind the collaboration with Taylor Swift in 2008. Can you imagine what that would sound like?” Us doing something with Loudon Wainwright III or Leonard Cohen. If you’re gonna do collaborations, I don’t see the point in us doing a song with Bon Jovi.ĭo you know what I mean? It’s like, I’d prefer the idea of Jon doing a song with like, Tom Waits. In addition to the colorations of each others hits, the DVD. I loved the idea of something that’s gonna either piss people off or they go, good for you for doing something different. Available only at Walmart, this music DVD features the joint collaboration between country superstar Taylor Swift and Great Britains greatest arena rock band Def Leppard as they take the stage together in Nashville before an invitation-only audience for their CMT Crossroads episode. We’ve always been that poke-noses-out-of-joint kind of band. He goes, “It’s Taylor Swift, she’s doing this interview, and she said there was only band that she would ever do a Crossroads with, and it was Def Leppard.” We went, “Wow, OK, get in touch with her, see what she thinks.” Lo and behold, couple of months go by and, all of a sudden, we’re doing this show. Good luck to her for doing that, you know? The whole thing came together because somebody walked into our dressing room with a laptop… The love-in blossomed and, in 2008, these two acts from very different worlds appeared together on the County Music. In fairness, she really did go out, full bore, and conquer the world. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Def Leppard, it transpires, were very much up for working with Taylor Swift too. ![]() She was irate the next day, because she thought the lads had snuck some ladies into the bedroom: “Ohhhh! There was makeup in the bed this morning when I changed the sheets!” Elliott had to explain to her that it was just because of the excessive amounts of cosmetics worn by the members of Girl.“Well, she was already pretty big, so the conquer the world was something that was either gonna happen or wasn’t. ![]() The two groups were friendly, and at one Girl gig, Def Lep guitarist Steve Clark and Joe Elliott joined them onstage - that night, everyone ended up crashing at Elliott’s mother’s house. The taping happened at The Acuff Theatre in Nashville, TN with 11 songs. When Def Leppard started, Collen was in a glam-rock band called Girl. Taylor and Def Leppard filmed their appearance on CMT Crossroads on October 6, 2008. The guitarist has always taken the glam aesthetic literally. The condition isn’t an occupational hazard in his current life as a rock star, but it was a disadvantage in his first job working at a burglar-alarm factory, where he would solder wires incorrectly because he couldn’t tell the colors apart.Ģ. But the memoir also gives some inside dirt on Def Leppard, everyone’s favorite nine-armed pop-metal superband. So growing up, the music that was playing in my house was Def Leppard. The book has its frustrating elements: Collen spends time with both Diana Ross and Taylor Swift but doesn’t have anything in particular to say about either of them. Taylor Swift - My mom was a huge fan of theirs when she was pregnant with me. Phil Collen, who has played guitar for Def Leppard since 1982, has written an autobiography with Chris Epting - Adrenalized: Life, Def Leppard, and Beyond - that’s packed with juicy tales of his time with the band.
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