DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliott, Rick Savage Talk Rock Of Agest

DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliott, Rick Savage Talk Rock Of Ages, First Songs Available In The Digital Domain




Derrik J. Lang from The Associated Press
caught up with DEF LEPPARD's lead singer Joe Elliott, bassist Rick
Savage about the new Rock Of Ages film. "The movie helps a lot without
the momentum of something like a new album," said Elliott during a break
from rehearsing for the tour, which they're not-so-subtly calling the
Rock Of Ages tour. Here are a few more excerpts from the chat:





AP: You weren't associated with the Rock of Ages stage show but you are with the film. Why's that?


Joe Elliott: "You could say with hindsight that we didn't make a
wrong decision, we just made a decision. We revisited that decision when
they threw out the idea of the film to us because they mentioned people
like Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand and Catherine
Zeta-Jones and the director who did Hairspray."


AP: Did you ever in a million years think Tom Cruise would be singing one of your songs in a musical?


Rick Savage: "It's not one of those things you think about, really."


Joe Elliott: "Could you imagine if it was though? You get in the
shower one day and go, 'I wonder if Tom Cruise will ever sing 'Pour Some
Sugar on Me?'"


Rick Savage: "We were fortune enough to check his filming out of
that particular performance because we were both in Florida at the same
time. We were about half an hour's drive away. We just had to get there
as he was shooting some of the scenes. That was special in itself, just
getting to meet the man."


Joe Elliott: "It was pretty surreal, actually. We just walked into
this little seedy club in Ft. Lauderdale, and there up on stage is
Stacee Jaxx doing 'Sugar'. It's like, 'What is this?' It's nuts."





AP: Why did you decide to release re-recorded versions of 'Rock Of Ages' and 'Pour Some Sugar on Me' this summer?


Joe Elliott: "Our work is not available on any digital domain,
except for the last album, the Mirrorball album, because it's a catalog
issue with the record label, so we just wanted studio versions of those
songs available for this summer because of the film coming out."


Read more at The Associated Press.