From: "Mike N. Reinemann" Date sent: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:08:45 -0400 Subject: It's OK again to like Def Leppard Sunday Aug. 20, 2000 It's OK again to like Def Leppard BEE NEWS SERVICES (Published: Friday, August 18, 2000) Is it cool again to like Def Leppard? The Brit pop-metal band was huge in the '80s, selling 10 million copies of "Pyromania" (1983) and 12 million of "Hysteria" (1987). Then the bottom fell out in the '90s, when the grunge movement shoved the more polished Leppard aside. "It became a case of 'If you like this, then you couldn't like that,'" recalls Leppard guitarist Phil Collen. "But things are changing. We've been handed loads of compliments by many artists who you think would have hated us, like Everclear, Hole, and Orgy. We did the 'Edge Fest' in Minneapolis last summer with Hole, and Courtney Love said some great things about us from the stage." "I have a theory," says Collen. "If you're popular one decade, then you're not going to be popular the next decade, but the decade after that, you're cool again. When the '80s came, suddenly everything in the '60s was cool and retro. In the '90s, the '70s were cool. And now in the year 2000, the '80s are all right again." Copyright © The Modesto Bee.