Def Leppard members manage to still get along
In the mid-1980s, my mom managed a local rock band in Atlanta that opened for a few national acts who hogged the stage. INXS, say, would give Mom's band, like, six feet of space to open. But there was one band that gave its opening acts plenty of room to stretch out on, and then acted nicely backstage. That band was Def Leppard.
I was never a big Def Leppard fan. But it seems amazing to me that any band can stick around for 22 years, and Def Leppard did that, despite the drummer losing an arm, and another member dying of an overdose, and all that other VH1 "Behind the Music" drama.
Also, the British singer, Joe Elliott, was nice to me on the phone, while he promoted the band's Sunday show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. I reached him in Japan. It was midnight there and, like, 7 a.m. here.