Def Leppard Atomic Mess News

In 1996, during the tail end of the alternative music explosion, Def Leppard recorded the alt-ish album Slang, replacing their trademark studio sheen with edgy songs and somewhat ragged production in an effort to blend with the times.

Their follow-up three years later, Euphoria, was more an attempt to retrace their steps and return to the multilayered guitar glory and soaring choruses of the band's other "-ia" albums, 1983's Pyromania and 1987's Hysteria. Now, as Def Leppard prepare to enter the studio to work on their eighth record, they find themselves striving for the best of both worlds.

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The Clock interview at rocknrollstation.com has been changed from 6:30pm PDT to 3pm PDT on Tuesday June 26, 2001.

CLOCK will be in our studio's for an interview and performing LIVE on June 26th at 6:30pm pacific/9:30 pm eastern time. You can come check us out at www.rocknrollstation.com, click on listen live, then select the video and sound with chat option. This is where you will be able to see, hear and be fully interactive with the band.

If you have any questions for the guys please e-mail them to mickey@rocknrollstation.com with the subject "Clock Interview".

Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott, guitarist Phil Collen and members of David Bowie's '70s band Spiders From Mars have recorded a double-CD of Bowie covers under the name Cybernauts.

The 25-track set, Cybernauts Live, consists of 18 live songs and seven studio cuts for a total of nearly two-and-a-half hours of music.

The Cybernauts project grew out of Elliott's admiration for Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson, who died of cancer in 1993.

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On June 7th, The Cybernauts, comprising of Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Trevor Bolder (Spiders From Mars, Uriah Heep), Dick Decent (No Commercial Potential, The Red Lemons) and Woody Woodmansey (David Bowie, Spiders From Mars) are set to release a live collaboration album comprising of Bowie material. The 25-track CD entitled Cybernauts Live will contain 18 live tracks and 7 studio tracks and will only be available through the official Cybernauts web site, WWW.CYBERNAUTSRULEOK.COM.

This project first came into fruition for Joe Elliott and Phil Collen at a Def Leppard show in Stockholm.

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VH1 Report:

"Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story" — This true story of one of the hottest metal bands of the '80s stars Karl Geary, Orlando Seale, Adam McDonald, Esteban Powell, Tat Whalley, Anthony Michael Hall and supermodel Amber Valletta. After finding success at home, the British group began to top the U.S. charts with the help of renowned producer Mutt Lange. Although drug and alcohol addiction increasingly took its toll on the band, the party continued until drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car accident. Pressured to find a new drummer or face the end of the group, the band instead encouraged their mate to learn to play with one arm — and emerged to their biggest audiences ever. Directed by Robert Mandel ("School Ties," "The Practice"). Debuts Wednesday, July 18 at 9:00 p.m.

Marti Frederiksen is North European (swedish or danish) and previous to his role as producer/mixer/arranger/songwriter he was part of a hard rock band called Motherland.

He moved to LA many years ago and has been working steadily for different artists since. Apart from writing and producing most of Aerosmith's Just Push Play, his most outstanding work is:

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The following info comes from the official site: The band (bar Sav) are currently in Los Angeles to write new songs with Marti Fredericksen, known for his recent work with Aerosmith. Phil: "So far, we've written two songs with Marti, and they're really, really great". Rick has put down a couple of drum tracks for some demo versions of new songs, and the rest of the band have been writing and recording demo songs as well. Currently, there are some 8 songs being worked on.

More info regarding Marti Fredericksen will be coming soon.

On Wednesday May 9, Vivian's wife Julie gave birth to their second daughter, weighing 7 pounds and 0.5 oz, and 19 inches long. The new Campbell is the sister of the couple's first child Lily Rose, who turned 2 last Sunday. The name of the girl will be chosen today and will be announced later this week.

Def Leppard guitarist Rick Savage intends to sell his Co Dublin house and purchase a substantial property near Sheffield, England, the High Court was told yesterday.

Last week, Mr Savage and a company named Cathrish Ltd were ordered
under a temporary injunction not to dispose of his property at Strawberry
Hill House, Vico Road, Dalkey, with an estimated value of £3.5 million.
They were also restrained from reducing their assets below £350,000.

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Def Leppard guitarist Rick Savage has been directed by the High Court not to dispose of a property in Dalkey, Co Dublin, worth some £3.5 million. Proceedings against Mr Savage and a company, Cathrish Ltd, have been taken by Mr Robert Frewen, of East 79th Street, New York, and his wife.

Mr Frewen said he and his wife own No 1, Strawberry Hill House, Vico Road. Since 1998, water had been percolating from the property overhead owned by the defendants. He and his wife were at a loss of about £100,000 in rental income.

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ORLANDO SEALE: was in Sleepy Hollow as Theodore. I don't remember who that is in the movie but feel free to rent it and find out.

ADAM MACDONALD: Good old Canadian boy, done a lot of TV here but not much any of you outside of Canada would know or heard of.

KARL GEARY: Irish lad-Done some tv, some films even I have never heard of and was Tommy on "Sex in The City" in the 1998-99 season, on the episode "Bay Of Married Pigs".

TAT WHALLEY: Was in "The Messenger" played Raymond

ESTEBAN POWELL: Was in Dazed and Confused and Powder - played Carl and Mitch respectively.

Daniel's Def Leppard Theme for Linux has been added to the Downloadable Files section.

Joe Elliott did two online chats with USA Today in February 2001. The two chat transcripts (1, 2) are available in the Interviews section.

Leppard United has announced its 2001 Def Leppard Convention in NYC. The convention will take place May 24-26, 2001 and is open to everyone. More information is available.