Not afraid of love but no sell-outs
Def Leppard, the British rock band that pours some sugar on its heavy metal tendencies, uses a taboo word on its new album, "X." In fact, the band even wrote a song titled "Four Letter Word."
"I've said it for years — we're probably one of the few rock bands around that's not afraid to use the word," singer Joe Elliott says by phone before a tour stop in Philadelphia. That tour will bring Def Leppard in concert Wednesday at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach.
What's this taboo four-letter word? As Elliott sings on "X" over snappy, snarling guitars: "I found a new four-letter word, the sweetest sound I ever heard. . . . Lust can be kind of nice, but it ain't L-O-V-E."