For Def Leppard it's about writing, recording and promoting
Calendar years and Def Leppard have made for heated discussion among fans and music scribes over the course of the band's career.
Since the gap between its 1983 breakthrough, "Pyromania," and 1987's "Hysteria," Def Leppard has been notorious for the multiyear spans between studio albums, be there inter-band setbacks and tragedies or not.
Yet such criticism is unfounded to Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott.
"In the old days, people would say 'Why does it take you five years to
make an album?' but it doesn't take us five years to make an album," he
said.