GuitarOne Magazine with Viv and Phil
From one of the most successful yet accursed rock bands in history comes a story of resilience, determination, and survival. Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell explain how over 25 years of rock has added up to X.
"I think it was unfair, not having been with Def Leppard in the '80s, that they were lumped in with bands that they had nothing to do with. Poison, Cinderella - some of those bands had decent songs, but Def Leppard had great songs! Def Leppard was breaking ground musically," declares guitarist Vivian Campbell as he reclines on a sofa at the San Fernando Valley's Mates Studio - the same studio, it so happens, where he first jammed with Leppard 10 years ago. "I think the only thing Def Leppard was guilty of in the '80s was having a bunch of bad hairdos. And perhaps some bad fashion mistakes. But who in the '80s wasn't guilty of that?"